pacman-contrib

Contrib repository for the pacman package management project.

How to build

./autogen.sh
./configure --prefix=/usr \
            --sysconfdir=/etc \
            --localstatedir=/var
make
make check
make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir"

Contributions

• systemd services and timers for paccache and pacman -Fy.

• Vim runtime files for PKGBUILD and SRCINFO files.

Scripts

checkupdates

Print a list of pending updates without touching the system sync databases (for safety on rolling release distributions).

paccache

Flexible package cache cleaning utility that allows greater control over which packages are removed.

pacdiff

pacnew/pacsave updater for /etc/.

paclist

List all packages installed from a given repository. Useful for seeing which packages you may have installed from the testing repositories, for instance.

paclog-pkglist

List currently installed packages based pacman's log.

pacscripts

Print the {pre,post}_{install,remove,upgrade} scripts of a given package.

pacsearch

Colorized search combining both -Ss and -Qs output. Installed packages are easily identified with a [installed], and local-only packages are also listed.

pacsort

Concatenate the given files, sort them, and write them to standard output.

pactree

Package dependency tree viewer.

rankmirrors

Rank pacman mirrors by their connection and opening speed.

updpkgsums

Perform an in-place update of the checksums in a PKGBUILD.