This repository contains contributed scripts to pacman.
Note: This used to be part of pacman.git, but was moved out to make pacman maintenance easier.
./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr \
--sysconfdir=/etc \
--localstatedir=/var
make
make check
make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir"
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checkupdates - print a list of pending updates without touching the system sync databases (for safety on rolling release distributions).
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paccache - a flexible package cache cleaning utility that allows greater control over which packages are removed.
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pacdiff - a simple pacnew/pacsave updater for /etc/.
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paclist - list all packages installed from a given repository. Useful for seeing which packages you may have installed from the testing repository, for instance.
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paclog-pkglist - lists currently installs packages based pacman's log.
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pacscripts - tries to print out the {pre,post}_{install,remove,upgrade} scripts of a given package.
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pacsearch - a colorized search combining both -Ss and -Qs output. Installed packages are easily identified with a
[installed]
, and local-only packages are also listed. -
rankmirrors - ranks pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.
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updpkgsums - performs an in-place update of the checksums in a PKGBUILD.