Re: [Pkgutil-users] Compare available packages to those installed

[Peter B. <bon...@op...>]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM,  <ma...@pr...> wrote:
> An uncontroversial patch, I hope, is attached.
>
> This patch can be applied to pkgutil-2.1 (rev 286).
>
> It adds the following:
>
> * New option added, pkgutil -A (--compare-available), that is similar to pkgutil -c, except that it lists the packages in the catalogue and compares them with the installed version (or says "not installed").
> * pkgutil -C now has a long option equivalent; --compare-different.
>
> I'm immediately finding a use for this feature, and hope you do too.

Actually, I never liked how pkg-get displayed thousands of lines with
"not installed" (I always used it "|grep -v not") so my default was to
filter those out. Now you're asking for that! :-)

The patch has been committed (r297). Sorry for it taking so long.

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/peter