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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

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[yaourt] search results: a single row for each package

Currently serach results are presented a way when each package takes two lines:

[repo]/[name] [version] [votes]
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Is it possible to configure yaourt to force each package info be placed on a single line? -

[repo]/[name] [version] [votes]  description

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hauzer

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From: Belgrade, Serbia

Registered: 2010-11-17

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Re: [yaourt] search results: a single row for each package

Well, it's easy once you examine the code of yaourt and see what external programs it calls. It uses package-query to display it's information from AUR, so you'll need to patch that. There's a function in util.c named color_print_package which prints all the information when you search for packages. The patch is fairly simple, it just changes one character, from '\n' to ' '. Here it is: http://pastebin.com/yQ6G4PCd Also, I've made a PKGBUILD to use with it for convinience: http://pastebin.com/dysE8BtU
I really don't see the point of this, maybe for some kind of script or ..?

Last edited by hauzer (2011-04-10 14:19:40)

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student975

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Re: [yaourt] search results: a single row for each package

Thanks for the tip, but I'd more want to have the feature as option (say, for case of grepping) rather on constant base.

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falconindy

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Re: [yaourt] search results: a single row for each package

cower can do this for AUR searches via the --format flag. expac can do the same for binary repos.

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student975

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From: Russian Federation

Registered: 2011-03-05

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Re: [yaourt] search results: a single row for each package

@falconindy

Thanks, will try them.

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