TuPac
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tupac (turbo pacman) is a pacman database search engine that boosts pacman searches. The speed advantage is achieved by caching the pacman database.
Tasks like checking the integrity of an entire pacman-tracked installation, or finding orphans in large directories (like /usr), are performed in a few seconds.
tupac is not a pacman wrapper. Its coding is only related to pacman searches. For any other tasks it bypasses to yaourt.
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[edit] Key features
- Searches the AUR
- It allows you to refine searches by utilizing AND searches rather than OR searches (looks for packages that match all words)
- Automatic cache updates (no user intervention required at all).
- Very fast file level operations (find owners, find missing files, etc)
[edit] Command Line Arguments
tupac: A cached pacman implementatioin. Version: 0.3.5 Usage: tupac [word] [word] [word] ... : Search for and install packages that match all [word] tupac -Ss [word] [word] [word] ... : Search for packages that match all [word] tupac -Qo [file] [file] [file] ... : Search for each [file] owner tupac --checkdir [directory] : Check integrity of a directory. tupac --orphans [directory] : Find files that are not part of any package tupac : Manual call to update cache tupac [anything else] : bypass to yaourt tupac --set-proxy [host:port|none] : set up a proxy Modifiers: --safe : Only search for safe packages --noaur : Don't search in AUR --noprompt : Don't prompt anything --color [darkbg|lightbg|nocolor] : Choose color scheme --repos repo1,repo2,repo3,... : Set active repositories
[edit] What you must know
Tupac does not parse "/etc/pacman.conf". It works exclusively with the information available from the pacman database (/var/lib/pacman), so if you erase a repo from pacman.conf it will still be shown in tupac, unless you erase its directory from the database.
[edit] Installation
tupac is available from the AUR
[edit] Design
Tupac is written in php because:
- the serialize function makes caching a blink
- much simpler/cleaner coding than bash. This allows the design and implementation to concentrate on speed optimization.
[edit] History
The initial idea was to boost some yaourt operations. tupac was intended to be a rewrite of pajman, a program written in bash that had the same objective- speed up pacman searches. When I got into the php context, (a programming language that I use frequently) the idea of creating a cache rapidly came to me. After implementing the file operations (orphans, owners, integrity checks), I got so impressed with the results that i decided to rename it to tupac, turbo pacman.
[edit] Follow up
Check this forum's topic: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38560