Parcut

Pacman Repo Cleanup Tool

A script to clean up pacman repos. This is primarily used for removing old versions of packages and adding new ones, but it has options to print old and new packages line-by-line so they can be parsed by other programs.

Usage

First off, this depends on natsort and click, which you can install with pip.

list-new-packages
├── --list-debug
└── repo_path*
list-old-packages
├── --list-debug
└── repo_path*
run
├── --delete-debug
├── --dry-run
├── --only-delete
└── repo_path*

* = required

list-new-packages

List the newest version of all packages.

• --list-debug: List debug symbol packages (default: true)

list-old-packages

Lists old versions of packages.

• --list-debug: List debug symbol packages (default: true)

run

Processes it all, runs repo-remove and deletes old packages, then runs repo-add on new packages.

Arguments:

• --dry-run: Do a dry run
• --only-delete: Only delete files, don't modify the repo files from them (default: false)
  • Without this argument, parcut will try to remove and add the relevant packages using repo-add and repo-remove, meaning it optionally depends on those programs.
    • These are needed to run the repo anyways, so you should have them installed already.
• --delete-debug: Delete debug symbol packages (default: true)

Notes and credits

This was inspired by guydunigo/remove_old_arch_pkgs, which I used at first, but ran into some bugs with.

I also stole borrowed a bit of code from blend-os/blend for coloring the terminal.