pacpend

pacman -Qu output, but more customizable. Inspired by VerbosePkgLists, yaourt -Qu, and pacaur -Qu.

Can sort, group, highlights explicitly installed packages, query AUR database...

Uses checkupdates safe temporary database by default.

See pacpend -h to see all the options.

Usage

Usage with checkupdates for safe update checking. (so better used in an alias or script.)

• Check updates:

  $> checkupdates > /dev/null && pacpend

• Check and download only updates as user:

  • Setup once as root to give "download rights" (should be mostly safe for a personal computer: pacman checksums/verfies packages before install)

    $> sudo chmod a+w /var/cache/pacman/pkg

  • Now, as a user you can safely check and download updates:

    $> checkupdates > /dev/null; pacpend; \
       fakeroot -- pacman --noconfirm -Suwb "${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/checkup-db-${USER}/"

• Globally change pacpend default in your .bashrc/.zshrc/...:

  export PACPEND='-g explicit -s name,vdiff'

Screenshots

• pacpend -g none -s name,vdiff
  no groups, sort by version difference/increment:

• pacpend -g explicit -s name,sizediff
  group by explicitly installed or not, sort by installed size difference/increment:

Dependencies

• archlinux
• python3
• pyalpm: Libalpm (pacman) bindings for Python 3