Man1 - pacinfo.1

pacinfo - display package information

pacinfo [options] (<pkgspec>|<pkgname>)… pacinfo (–help|–version)

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.

–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.

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 <&-.