[pacman-dev] [PATCH] contrib/paclist: rewrite in bash

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Thu Jun 30 05:32:01 EDT 2011


On 30/06/11 13:52, Dave Reisner wrote:
> The original concept for this script was a bash implementation, but
> turned out to be unreasonable at the time due to the efficiencies of the
> database format. Since those have been resolved, we can rewrite this in
> bash as a much simpler script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner<dreisner at archlinux.org>
> ---
> Restore this script it its original intended glory in beautiful bash. I opted
> for the gettext bindings to preserve pacman error messages.

Add the gettext part in the commit message as it is a good feature to 
mention.

Also, can we get the version numbers back? I find them quite useful.

 > paclist testing
avahi 0.6.30-4
cronie 1.4.8-1
...

 > ./contrib/paclist testing
avahi
cronie
...

Allan


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