[Solved] List AUR packages installed and only AUR packages.

Question

Here's a good one.  Thought this would be easy but thought it over and then looked around a bit and haven't found anything.  There's might just be an easy way to do this that will make me *bonk* my head in the morning but I haven't found it yet.  I'm looking to be able to just list the packages I have installed from AUR and not any that I have gotten from the official repos.  I've checked out some utilities in AUR (like AURcheck) but as far as I can tell they just look for AUR updates.  Anyone know of a way to do this?
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-30 14:32:22)

Answer 1

I just got to reinstalling and this was a lifesaver - it worked great.  Thank for the help, brisbin, ghost, Allan...
@Ghost, I would have used packup but I had a couple downgraded packages and I wanted to be able to troubleshoot it.
The tip about the grep -v doing 'shortnameplus' was a good tip, Profjim.  I hadn't read this last post before and during the reinstall I was a bit surprised nvidia wasn't installed so... all is good now.
I created a script to be able to create the backup list and restores from it simliar to ghosts and am able to run it in cron job.  Probably not a big deal, but... phhht.  Here it is for anyone that can use it:
#!/bin/bash
# pacbac - Create and restore from list all installed packages
# Package list locations (official and local)
pkglsoff=/opt/backup/pc-emach/arch-pkglist-official
pkglsloc=/opt/backup/pc-emach/arch-pkglist-local
# Exclude packages
excldoff=()
excldloc=()
# Use filename as program name
prog=${0##*/}
# Text color variables
bldblu='\e[1;34m' # blue
bldred='\e[1;31m' # red
bldwht='\e[1;37m' # white
txtcyn='\e[0;36m' # cyan
txtund=$(tput sgr 0 1) # underline
txtrst='\e[0m' # text reset
info=${bldwht}*${txtrst}
pass=${bldblu}*${txtrst}
warn=${bldred}!${txtrst}
# If restoring, be sure yaourt is installed
if [[ "$1" == 'r' ]] && [[ -z $(pacman -Qs yaourt) ]]; then
echo ""
echo -e "$warn $prog requires ${txtund}}Yaourt${txtrst} to be installed."
echo -e " ${txtcyn}http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Yaourt${txtrst}"
echo ""
exit
fi
case $1 in
b ) # Create list of official repository packages (core, extra, community)
echo -e "$info Creating list of official (core/extra/community packages) packages installed."
# Create list, remove local, base
pacman -Qqe | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqg base)" | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqm)" > "$pkglsoff"
# Create list of local packages (includes the AUR)
echo -e "$info Creating list of local (includes AUR) packages installed."
pacman -Qqm > "$pkglsloc"
echo -e "$pass Official package list saved to ${txtund}"$pkglsoff"${txtrst}"
echo -e "$pass Local package list saved to ${txtund}"$pkglsloc"${txtrst}" ;;
r ) # Update repository database, then restore packages from list
echo -e "$info Installing packages from lists"
sudo pacman -Sy
# use -f to overwrite conflicting files
sudo pacman -S --needed $(cat "$pkglsoff")
# Yaourt doesn't have --needed check
yaourt -S $(cat "$pkglsloc" | grep -vx "$(pacman -Qqm)") ;;
* ) echo -e " pacbac b - build installed packages list. (dir:${txtund}"${pkglsoff%/*}"${txtrst})"
echo -e " pacbac r - restore installed packages from package list." ;;
esac
Last edited by Gen2ly (2009-10-31 14:16:55)