pacjump

pacman json dump: dump pacman packages information in JSON.

This package focuses on the local pacman database, yet it borrows some key ingredients from https://github.com/jelly/pacquery which focuses more on the sync databases.

Note: this package used to have the name pacman-json, but it was renamed for version 0.2.1 to avoid sounding too official.

usage

By default, dump explicitly installed packages info:

pacjump > pacman-explicits.json

One can then process the resulting JSON with jq, e.g. get the subset of packages from the official repo that is not maintained by someone@archlinux.org:

cat pacman-explicits.json | jq --raw-output '
  .[]
    | select( .repository | test("core|extra|multilib") )
    | select( .packager | contains("@archlinux.org") | not)
    | "\(.name), \(.repository), \(.packager)"
'

Collect all the dependencies of a single package (in this example, texstudio), and compute the size of this closure:

pacjump --recurse=texstudio \
  | jq '[ .[].installed_size ] | add' \
  | numfmt --to=iec

Sort dependencies by their installed sizes:

pacjump --recurse=texstudio | jq '
  [ sort_by(.installed_size).[] | { (.name): .installed_size } ] | add
'

Additional options can be found with pacjump --help. Shell completions generated from ./src/completions.rs are provided under ./completions/.

bryango/pacman-json

pacjump

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