Make pacman more verbose?

Is there a way to make pacman more verbose in showing what packages are being installed or updated?
For example, when doing a system update, you get a long list of packages that will be downloaded and installed. Most of them are packages you already have, but some may be new packages, pulled in as a new dependency of something else. I would like to more easily see if a package is a new install or an update, and what is causing the new packages to be installed.
I used to use FreeBSD, and it's ports system did this. You do a system update, and it would list all of the packages to be installed, one per line. Each line indicated whether it was an update or a new install, if it was an update it showed the old -> new version numbers, and if it was a new install it showed what package depended on it.
I haven't been able to find a way to make pacman do this, though I would be happy to be proven wrong. I've toyed with the idea of getting my hands dirty and writing some pacman patches to add this as an option, but I'd like to see if there are other solutions other people know about.

Using yaourt -Syua:
==> Package upgrade only (new release):
extra/libgnome-keyring 3.6.0-1 1 -> 2
extra/mesa 9.1-2 2 -> 3
==> Software upgrade (new version) :
core/filesystem 2013.01-3 -> 2013.03-2
core/iptables 1.4.16.3-1 -> 1.4.18-1
core/iproute2 3.7.0-1 -> 3.8.0-1
core/libffi 3.0.11-1 -> 3.0.12-1
core/systemd 197-4 -> 198-1
core/systemd-sysvcompat 197-4 -> 198-1
core/tzdata 2013a-1 -> 2013b-1
extra/dbus-glib 0.100-1 -> 0.100.2-1
extra/gconf 3.2.5-3 -> 3.2.6-1
extra/git 1.8.1.5-1 -> 1.8.2-1
aur/google-chrome 25.0.1364.160-1 -> 25.0.1364.172-1
==> Continue upgrade ? [Y/n]
==> [V]iew package detail [M]anually select packages
==> --------------------------------------------------
Also if there's any new package installed as a dependency to some other package, you are also acknowledged about it.

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Possible to make pacman less verbose?

Hi,
During updates your sometimes see pacman print a whole list of signed keys that it has been updated, even those that have not changed. Would it be possible to remove this output?
I do like package signing but I prefer not to be bothered with it at all as long as the keys seem to match. I feel it is something that should be handled behind the scenes and not confuse the user. Let's not forget that most UNIX programs only print things to the screen when something has gone wrong.
This was just a friendly suggestion. Thank you for all the hard work

@karol: Ah great. I will write my requests on the bugtracker in the future.
@ngoonee: To explain this "most UNIX programs" thing I wrote. It is a fairly well known philosophy that a program should not print to stdout if everything works as it should. Look at the how rm, cp, mv, mount, ln et.c. works, they don't tell you that what you just did worked, they only print stuff when something doesn't and they do that on stderr. These are the programs I refer to when I talk about "most UNIX programs". I thought this concept was actually well known among Linux enthusiasts.
There are good reasons behind this philosophy. Firstly printing something like writing an OK does not give you any more information compared to giving you nothing at all when you know beforehand a message not seen is a program that works. Imagine cp wrote "I copied file x to y" every time it worked and you have a script that does 50 cps in a row and all of them worked you would end up with a log with 100% useless information. Now this is not exactly true because usually programs print to stdout vs stderr and you could only redirect stderr but there are instances where you need to log non-error messages as well, probably because someone didn't care about sending errors to the correct file descriptor which is not very uncommon.
It doesn't add anything for scripting purposes either. It is much easier to check the exit status and check that it is zero than having to grep for some particular text. Often people in general write to much data to stdout, it is convenient but what they actually are doing is writing what is essentially log/debug messages to stdout. This is not what stdout is for.
I hope this explained it better.
@2ManyDogs: I don't mean pacman should remove ALL output, only the key-related stuff. The comparison was made as a reminder.

Is it possible to make db_recover more verbose?

If you use db_recover there seems to be never anything on the standard output. I'd like to get an info from db_recover what it has done (if anything).
db_recover -v results in nothing, if done again results in
Finding last valid log LSN: file: 1 offset 28
But I have no idea what this means.

Thanks for the additional explanation,
Normal recovery examines the contents of your environment's
log files, and uses this information to ensure that your
database files are consistent relative to the information
contained in the log files. This ensures that the changes
from each committed transaction appear in the database, and
that no changes from an unfinished (or aborted) transaction do.
Therefore if you are not using transactions/logging there is
no recovery. Hence, db_recover is not the right choice
in this case. The verbose flag is not showing anything, as
there is nothing to do. The recovery process will create a new log,
and that is what is being read on your 2nd pass.
The documentation in the Reference Guide on Berkeley DB recovery at:
http://www.oracle.com/technology/documentation/berkeley-db/db/ref/transapp/reclimit.html
details how Berkeley DB recovery is based on write-ahead logging.
From that documentation:
This means that when a change is made to a database page, a
description of the change is written into a log file. This
description in the log file is guaranteed to be written to
stable storage before the database pages that were changed
are written to stable storage. This is the fundamental feature
of the logging system that makes durability and rollback work.
If the application or system crashes, the log is reviewed during
recovery. Any database changes described in the log that were
part of committed transactions and that were never written to
the actual database itself are written to the database as part of recovery.
Any database changes described in the log that were never committed
and that were written to the actual database itself
are backed-out of the database as part of recovery. This design
allows the database to be written lazily, and only blocks from
the log file have to be forced to disk as part of transaction commit.
Thanks again,
Sandra

Is it possible to make db_verify more verbose?

db_verify has no verbose flag -v yet.
If there are errors these are printed.
I'd like db_verify to output something like "DB xy verified without errors" if all was fine.
Thanks,
gbkka

Hi gbkka,
Why would you add an unnecessary option/success message in the main product? DB->verify returns 0 on success and db_verify utility exits 0 on success.
This is the beauty of open source software, you can hack Berkeley DB (for 4.7.25 release I would look in db_verify/db_verify.c - line 242) and return whatever success message you want to have for the db_verify utility.
Bogdan

How make pacman ignore a package?

alsa-lib is required for gcc-gcj. Pacman wants to install alsa-lib-1.0.14-5. But, I have already installed alsa-lib-1.0.15rc1 outside of pacman. So, pacman doesn't think it's installed. Is there a way to make pacman think it's installed? Also, it would be good if it's ignored in future system updates too.
Note: I looked at the pacman and pacman.conf man pages. And tried IgnorePkg, which didn't do the job.
Last edited by ristretto (2007-09-17 21:53:28)

ristretto wrote:
fwojciec wrote:Also, let me know when you are done with it or if you're not going to use it so I can remove that link. Thanks.
Thanks, I got it. Was hoping for something a bit simpler, so will have to put this aside until I can spend more time on it. I'm sure it's not complicate, once you understand it. So, anyway, go ahead and remove it.
Like I said - the easy workaround, for now at least, would be to try and install whatever package you're installing, see what dependencies it requires and wants to install, cancel and install the dependencies by hand (minus alsa-lib) and finally install the package with ignore dependencies option.
As far as ABS/PKGBUILDs are concerned - they are one of the best, if not the best feature of Arch. Indeed, they are not complicated, but you need to read the wiki and experiment a bit first before you'll get how they work... It's definitely worth learning though, IMO, they are a very powerful tool (you can use them to customize packages, like this one, or a kernel for example, build your own packages and so forth). Anyways, good luck.

[SOLVED]Make Pacman think that I have libgl (NVIDIA driver)

Hi,
I've installed my Nvidia driver manualy because my card (NVS 310) do not work with the packages provides by pacman (even in AUR).
Now I have a problem because pacman think I do not have
libgl
and do not allows me to install any graphical tools like libreoffice even if I ignore libgl:
pacman -S libreoffice-fresh --ignore libgl
resolving dependencies...
:: There are 4 providers available for libgl:
:: Repository extra
1) mesa-libgl 2) nvidia-304xx-libgl 3) nvidia-340xx-libgl 4) nvidia-libgl
Enter a number (default=1):
I cannot install one of these package because then conflict with my manual install:
pacman -S libgl
:: There are 4 providers available for libgl:
:: Repository extra
1) mesa-libgl 2) nvidia-304xx-libgl 3) nvidia-340xx-libgl 4) nvidia-libgl
Enter a number (default=1): 4
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: nvidia-utils will be installed before its nvidia-libgl dependency
Packages (2) nvidia-utils-352.09-1 nvidia-libgl-352.09-1
Total Installed Size: 125.31 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(2/2) checking keys in keyring [######################################] 100%
(2/2) checking package integrity [######################################] 100%
(2/2) loading package files [######################################] 100%
(2/2) checking for file conflicts [######################################] 100%
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
nvidia-utils: /usr/bin/nvidia-bug-report.sh exists in filesystem
nvidia-utils: /usr/bin/nvidia-cuda-mps-control exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.
So my question is: Is there a way to make pacman understand that I have installed libgl manualy so it do not ask me to install it?
Thanks
The possible workaround is to remove my driver manually install any libgl than re-install manualy the driver and ignore libgl in the pacman configuration. But this is REALLY ugly...
Last edited by mickours (2015-06-13 19:09:41)

Thanks for your reply, that was fast!
Make my own package is definitly the right way to do this and I will when I have some time.
For now I tried the workaround I mentioned before:
mickours wrote:The possible workaround is to remove my driver manually install any libgl than re-install manualy the driver and ignore libgl in the pacman configuration. But this is REALLY ugly...
And it works!
Thanks again

Make Pacman default y/N after update

This is probably a newbie question but this looks like the place to ask it. I couldn't find an answer in the manual or a wiki.
Is it possible to make pacman default to No?
:: Starting full system upgrade...
resolving dependencies...
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (10): xf86-input-evdev-2.6.0-4 xf86-input-keyboard-1.6.0-3
xf86-input-mouse-1.7.1-2 xf86-input-vmmouse-12.7.0-3
xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.2-5 xf86-video-nv-2.1.18-4
xf86-video-vesa-2.3.0-6 xorg-server-common-1.11.0-1
xorg-server-1.11.0-1 xorg-server-xephyr-1.11.0-1
Total Download Size: 2.12 MB
Total Installed Size: 6.23 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]

You can run
echo n | sudo pacman -Syu
which will "respond" 'No' to
looking for inter-conflicts...
Targets (4): run-parts-4.0.2-1 [0,02 MB] ca-certificates-20110502-1 [0,13 MB]
imagemagick-6.7.2.1-1 [1,80 MB] lzo2-2.06-1 [0,10 MB]
Total Download Size: 2,05 MB
Total Installed Size: 10,84 MB
Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
and return to the prompt, so you can have a good look at what you're about to do. If you're sure about it, run 'pacman -Su'.

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[SOLVED] Make Pacman cache packages installed with -U

When installing a package with -U, pacman doesn't cache packages as it does when installing with -S. Is there a way to change this behavior?
I read somewhere that specifying the package's full path and prepending "file://", as in "pacman -U file://path/to/package.pkg.tar.xz", but this often complains of an "invalid or corrupted package (PGP signature)".
How can I make pacman always copy installed packages to the cache?
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You can't. This has been discussed on the bugtracker several times.
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/35699
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/31243
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/15143
https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/18012
If you're building the packages yourself with makepkg, you can set PKGDEST to your cache in makepkg.conf. Otherwise you could write a small pacman wrapper that copies the package after installing it.

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