FS#34828 - pacman - VerbosePkgLists - Sort by repo

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Seth Sinquefield (optiseth) - Wednesday, 17 April 2013, 17:21 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Output
Status Unconfirmed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 4.1.0
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 0%
Votes 6
Private No

Details

Summary and Info:
Propose to make the output of VerbosePkgLists more user friendly by sorting the repo first then sorting packages alphabetically.

------------------------Current Output-----------------------------

Name Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size

core/bison 2.7-1 2.7.1-1 -0.18 MiB 0.46 MiB
core/expat 2.1.0-1 2.1.0-2 -0.01 MiB 0.10 MiB
extra/libplist 1.8-2 1.10-1 -0.04 MiB 0.09 MiB
core/m4 1.4.16-2 1.4.16-3 -0.01 MiB 0.16 MiB
core/tar 1.26-2 1.26-3 -0.08 MiB 0.55 MiB

------------------------Desired Output-----------------------------

Name Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size

core/bison 2.7-1 2.7.1-1 -0.18 MiB 0.46 MiB
core/expat 2.1.0-1 2.1.0-2 -0.01 MiB 0.10 MiB
core/m4 1.4.16-2 1.4.16-3 -0.01 MiB 0.16 MiB
core/tar 1.26-2 1.26-3 -0.08 MiB 0.55 MiB
extra/libplist 1.8-2 1.10-1 -0.04 MiB 0.09 MiB


Steps to Reproduce:

Uncomment VerbosePkgLists in /etc/pacman.conf
Run pacman -Syu
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Comment by jstjohn (jstjohn) - Thursday, 30 May 2013, 13:41 GMT
I'd like to see what was suggested in the original request or having the repository name given its own column. Having the package names be left-aligned would really help improve their readability so you aren't constantly scanning for the "/".

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