[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Add VerboseUpgradeInfo Option

[Nagy Gabor]

Idézés Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com>:

> 2008/3/2, Justin Lampley <jrlampley at gmail.com>:
> > Attached is a patch to add an option that displays the old version of
> >  the package as well as size in column format for the upgrade operation.
> >   Another patch was submitted back in November for this, but it either
> >  got lost and buried in the list, or Dan just hated it :).
> >
> >  When enabled, this is what the upgrade information looks like:
> >
> >  Targets:
> >
> >  Pkg Name                  New Version   Old Version         Size
> >
> >  perl                      5.10.0-2      5.8.8-9         15.37 MB
> >  cairo-perl                1.044-1       1.041-1          0.10 MB
> >  courier-authlib           0.60.2-2      0.60.2-1         0.17 MB
> >  dhcpcd                    3.2.1-1       3.2.0-1          0.04 MB
> >  imagemagick               6.3.8.0-2     6.3.8.0-1        2.00 MB
> >  glib-perl                 1.162-1       1.160-1          0.36 MB
> >  perl-event                1.09-3        1.09-2           0.09 MB
> >  perl-anyevent             2.8-6         2.8-5            0.02 MB
> >  perl-libintl-perl         1.16-3        1.16-2           1.11 MB
> >  perl-event-execflow       0.63-3        0.63-2           0.04 MB
> >  gtk2-perl                 1.162-1       1.160-1          2.28 MB
> >  perl-gtk2-ex-formfactory  0.65-4        0.65-3           0.20 MB
> >
> 
> This output looks cleaner to me than that of ShowSize, because it's indented.
> But I wonder - what will be if user enables both options? One of them
> should definetely take precedence.
> 
> -- 
> Roman Kyrylych (РОПан Đ&#65533;иŃ&#65533;иНиŃ&#65533;)
> _______________________________________________

I agree with Romashka here. Yesterday I set ShowSize in pacman.conf (which
induced my pacman.conf patch;-), but its output is not very human friendly, so I
also suggest tune ShowSize.

Bye


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