Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
> $ pacman -Slq core > core-old.txt > # pacman -Sy > $ pacman -Slq core > core-new.txt > $ diff core-new.txt core-old.txt Sweet! Between that and the rss feeds I'm good to go! Thanks all!

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such a diff would tell me things like (output > > Packages removed from package tree/ftp servers: > firefox (installed) > foobar (not installed) > > Packages added to tree/ftp servers > iceweasel (not installed) > tmpwatch

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:25 PM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Such a diff would tell me things like (output > > Packages removed from package tree/ftp servers: > firefox (installed) > foobar (not installed) > > Packages added to tree/ftp servers > iceweasel (not installed) > tmpwatch

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 03:40:11PM +0200, Dennis Herbrich wrote: > > What I'm looking for is a way to see a diff of my package cache prior to > > and just after syncing, i.e. what packages are out of date (which pacman > > does show), what packages have been removed from the repositories since my >

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Dan McGee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Arch in 99% of cases uses mandir=/usr/share/man, sysconfdir=/etc, and > never installs things under /usr/local. We don't want to enforce > things like that at the makepkg level however, you are free to build > local package h

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dan McGee
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 9:52 AM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Xavier wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > To me Arch package building is refreshing when compared to my experiences >> >

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 04:16:07PM +0200, Xavier wrote: > On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > To me Arch package building is refreshing when compared to my experiences > > with > > ebuilds and rpm spec files. I can't seem to find a list of all the var

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Xavier
On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 2:45 PM, Dave Heistand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To me Arch package building is refreshing when compared to my experiences with > ebuilds and rpm spec files. I can't seem to find a list of all the varibles > that can be used in a PKGBUILD script though (like $startdir

Re: [arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dennis Herbrich
On Wed, June 11, 2008 14:45, Dave Heistand wrote: > Hi, Greetings! > What I'm looking for is a way to see a diff of my package cache prior to > and just after syncing, i.e. what packages are out of date (which pacman > does show), what packages have been removed from the repositories since my > la

[arch-general] new arch user, questions about package management

2008-06-11 Thread Dave Heistand
Hi, For various personal reasons including the rolling release model (which is critical to me), easy package building and availability of binary packages and build scripts I'm considering changing to arch. I do have a few questions that I can't seem to find the answers to, sorry if they are cover