On 03/05/14 at 04:00pm, Pierre Neidhardt wrote:
> Printing package size is useful for maintenance. Indeed, the first entry on
> the
> wiki is focused on this topic:
>
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Tips#Maintenance
>
> None of the proposed solutions will allow you to:
> - select packages;
> - work on the output of other commands yielding a list of packages;
> - change the sorting;
> - be locale independent;
> - print a grand total;
> - be fast (most solutions are wasting a lot of time -- only expac is faster);
> - not rely on any third-party tool.
>
> Pacsize is a POSIX shell script that is generic enough to enclose all these
> features (and more).
>
> Adding a 'pacsize' script eliminates the unneeded abundance of workarounds for
> this simple matter.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pierre Neidhardt <[email protected]>
> ---
> contrib/.gitignore | 1 +
> contrib/Makefile.am | 3 +
> contrib/README | 4 ++
> contrib/pacsize.sh.in | 159
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 4 files changed, 167 insertions(+)
> create mode 100644 contrib/pacsize.sh.in
Your pacman parser doesn't understand size units:
$ ./pacsize linux
67 KiB linux
$ pacman -Qi linux | grep Installed
[0][1078]
Installed Size : 67.12 MiB
