pacinfo(1)

NAME

pacinfo - display package information

SYNOPSIS

 pacinfo [options] (<pkgspec>|<pkgname>)...
 pacinfo (--help|--version)

DESCRIPTION

If a pkgname is given, information for all packages matching that name in all databases will be displayed.

If stdin is not connected to a terminal, packages will be read from stdin.

OPTIONS

--config=path

Set an alternate configuration file path.

--dbext=extension

Set an alternate sync database extension.

--dbpath=path

Set an alternate database path.

--root=path

Set an alternate installation root.

--sysroot=path

Set an alternate system root. See pacutils-sysroot(7).

--null[=sep]

Set an alternate separator for values parsed from stdin. By default a newline "\n" is used as the separator. If --null is used without specifying sep "NUL" will be used.

--no-timeout

Disable low-speed timeouts for downloads.

--short

Display brief information. Suitable for printing a potentially large number of packages:

 pacsift --name libreoffice | pacinfo --short

--verbose

Display additional package information: "required by", "optional for", and "base64 signature".

--raw

Display raw numeric size and date values.

--removable-size

Include the size of any removable dependencies in installed size.

--help

Display usage information and exit.

--version

Display version information and exit.

CAVEATS

pacinfo determines whether or not to read packages from stdin based on a naive check using isatty(3). If pacinfo is called in an environment, such as a shell function or script being used in a pipe, where stdin is not connected to a terminal but does not contain packages to print, pacinfo should be called with stdin closed. For POSIX-compatible shells, this can be done with "<&-".