How to list package download size for those that need to be updated by pacman?
pacman -Syu outputs a list of packages that need be updated. It then prints the total update size (i.e. how much data to download).
My question is: is there a way to get the download size for each packet that needs to be updated? I thought that could be done maybe via expac and some text handlin, but I couldn’t figure out how.
I was thinking an output print like:
package1-name X MB
package2-name X MB
...
Yes there is.
All that’s needed is to enable VerbosePkgLists in pacman.conf, which according to the documentation:
Displays name, version and size of target packages formatted as a table for upgrade, sync and remove operations.
This for instance produces
Package (183) Old Version New Version Net Change Download Size
core/bash 5.1.004-1 5.1.008-1 0.01 MiB 1.65 MiB
pacman -Qui | awk '/^Name/{name=$3} /^Installed Size/{print $4$5, name}' | sort -h
from a slightly modified version of this command from the wiki