On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:38 AM, Divan Santana <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Pacman Devs, > > Hope this is the correct place to ask such a question... > > I'm new to Arch Linux and loving the Arch so far. > > I'm impressed and pleasantly surprised by pacman as a package management > system. > > One thing that would be nice, and I think it's in line with The Arch Way > (openness perhaps ;) is when updating to display(or be able to display) the > versions of the packages being upgraded. I know one sees the new version being > installed but not the currently installed version so one can quickly compare > before proceeding/deciding to upgrade. > > I know one can easily achieve this with queries and small scripts(such as > below) but it would really be quite nice to pass a pacman parameter and be > able to see the output. I think it's quite important as Arch being a rolling > distro sometimes you get major updates of packages and it would be nice to see > straight away which are major updates and which are minor. > > Script to do this I use is: for package in `pacman -Qu | awk {'print $1'}`; do > echo "`pacman -Q $package` to `pacman -Si $package | grep Version | awk > {'print $NF'}`"; done > > Other package management programs + arguments that do this is: > zypper -v up > apt-get dist-upgrade -V > > Anyway it's a minor thing perhaps the best is to log a feature request at > https://bugs.archlinux.org ? Better(and also in line with the Arch Way) would > be contribute the code and not request it but unfortunately I can't help with > that since I know so little programming. You mean like this? https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15772
-Dan
