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oKtosiTe

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Registered: 2010-05-26

Posts: 1

Upgrade version display

I've been an Arch user for five days now, and I've noticed that when I run "pacman -Syu", I only see what versions I'm upgrading to, not the current versions of the packages I'm upgrading from. Anything I can do about that?

ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: Upgrade version display

I've been an Arch user for five days now, and I've noticed that when I run "pacman -Syu", I only see what versions I'm upgrading to, not the current versions of the packages I'm upgrading from. Anything I can do about that?

Yaourt (a pacman wrapper script) will show you that info, but it is slow.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,672

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Re: Upgrade version display

Not that I have seen.   I remember seeing a bug in the pacman bug tracker asking for this at one stage, but do not remember anything being done about it.

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ijanos

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From: Budapest, Hungary

Registered: 2008-03-30

Posts: 443

Re: Upgrade version display

Not that I have seen.   I remember seeing a bug in the pacman bug tracker asking for this at one stage, but do not remember anything being done about it.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15772

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Upgrade version display

It's a horrible hack but it used to work for me.

newp () {
for i in $(sudo pacman -Quq); do
     find /var/lib/pacman/sync -iname $i-?\.* | cut -c 21-
     find /var/lib/pacman/local -iname $i-?\.* | cut -c 16- 
done;
}


[karol@black ~]$ newp
/extra/intel-dri-7.7.1-1
/local/intel-dri-7.5.1-2
/extra/libdrm-2.4.19-2
/local/libdrm-2.4.19-1
/extra/libgl-7.7.1-1
/local/libgl-7.5.1-2
/extra/xf86-input-evdev-2.3.2-1
/local/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5-1
/extra/xf86-input-keyboard-1.4.0-1
/local/xf86-input-keyboard-1.3.2-2
/extra/xf86-input-mouse-1.5.0-1
/local/xf86-input-mouse-1.4.0-2
/extra/xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0-1
/local/xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0-1
/extra/xorg-server-1.7.6-3
/local/xorg-server-1.6.3.901-1
/extra/xorg-server-utils-7.5-3
/local/xorg-server-utils-7.4-7

The top line of each pair is the current version I should upgrade to, the bottom line is my local version.