Pacman - short question about usage

Question

Hi,
while searching the database with "pacman -Ss foobar", is it possible to show which of the resulting package names are already installed? In Debian it's shown via "aptitude search foobar", but I can't find the corresponding option for pacman in its man page.
Thanks for your answer.

Answer 1

Sorry, I've forgot to mention - but I think "repo-add" is more elegant solution. Personaly, I use a script which I call "auri" based on "aur-install", too. It also builds packages.
If anyone likes it you can improve
#!/bin/bash
#/usr/local/sbin/auri
# Author: Luis Useche <[email protected]>
# Modified by: aris002 (no warranty and no reponsabilty for the damages to your system)
# Date: 10/20/2006
# License: GPL
# aur-install is a tool to install any AUR package in one command. It is needed
# to pass the url of the tarball package. It allows to see the code of both
# PKGBUILD and install file beforme performing the installation.
ABS_LOCAL_DIR="/var/abs/local"
WGET="/usr/bin/wget"
UNTAR="/bin/tar xzf"
MAKEPKG="/usr/bin/makepkg"
PACMAN_INSTALL="/usr/bin/pacman -U"
REMOVE="/bin/rm -rf"
READER="/bin/less"
ADD_TO_MY_REPO="/usr/bin/repo-add"
HOME_REPO_DIR="/home/myrepo"
HOME_REPO_NAME="myrepo"
AUR_URLPKGS="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages"
# Function that make a yes or no question a return true in case of
# yes otherwise false
ask_question() {
echo -n "$1(y/n)[y]: "; read ANSWER
while [ -n "$ANSWER" ] && [ "$ANSWER" != "y" ] && [ "$ANSWER" != "n" ]; do
echo -n "\"y\" or \"n\": "; read ANSWER
done
return `[ "$ANSWER" = "y" ] || [ -z "$ANSWER" ]`
# Verifying root permisions
if [ `id -u` != "0" ]; then
echo "You need root to execute this script"
exit 1
fi
# Veryfing parameters
if [ -z "$1" ]; then
echo "You need to pass an aur package URL or aur package name as an argument"
echo "Usage: aur-install <pkgname>|<package tarball URL>"
exit 1
fi
# Verifying if the argument is a URL or a pkg name
if echo $1 | grep -q "http://"; then
URL_PKGTAR=$1
TAR_FILE=`basename $1`
PKGNAME=`basename $1 .tar.gz`
else
URL_PKGTAR="$AUR_URLPKGS/$1/$1.tar.gz"
TAR_FILE="$1.tar.gz"
PKGNAME="$1"
fi
# Changing directory
pushd $ABS_LOCAL_DIR > /dev/null
# Download the file and place it in abs dir
#aris002 TODO check if exists!!!
$WGET $URL_PKGTAR
# Untaring tar file
$UNTAR $TAR_FILE
# Removing the file
#aris002 KEEP???
$REMOVE $TAR_FILE
# Go inside package directory
pushd $PKGNAME > /dev/null
# Verifying the packages
if ask_question "Do you want to look the PKGBUILD file in case of malicious code?"; then
$READER PKGBUILD
# Continue?
if ! ask_question "Do you want to continue?"; then
exit 1
fi
fi
# Including PKGBUILD
source PKGBUILD
if [ -n "$install" ] && ask_question "Do you want to look the $install file in case of malicious code?"; then
$READER $install
# Continue?
if ! ask_question "Do you want to continue?"; then
exit 1
fi
fi
#repair (insert) arch=('i686') in PKGBUILD
sed -i.BAK -e '/^arch/d' -e '/^pkgdesc/a \arch=('\''i686'\'')' $ABS_LOCAL_DIR/$PKGNAME/PKGBUILD
echo "Making and installing the package..."
# Making Package
$MAKEPKG
#aris002 repo-add
$ADD_TO_MY_REPO "$HOME_REPO_DIR/$HOME_REPO_NAME.db.tar.gz" "$HOME_REPO_DIR/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-i686.pkg.tar.gz"
# Installing with pacman
$PACMAN_INSTALL "$HOME_REPO_DIR/$pkgname-$pkgver-$pkgrel-i686.pkg.tar.gz"
# Returning to the original directory
popd > /dev/null
popd > /dev/null