contrib: adding checkupdates

Signed-off-by: Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>

[Allan: update contrib/README]
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/contrib/README b/contrib/README
index b9f65248..ae33bb25 100644
--- a/contrib/README
+++ b/contrib/README
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ database entries. Useful for reuse, or possible config file extension.
 bash_completion - a bash completion script for pacman, install in
 /etc/bash_completion.d/ for use (but rename to something descriptive!).
 
+checkupdates - print a list of pending updates without touching the system
+sync databases (for safety on rolling release distributions).
+
 paccache - a flexible package cache cleaning utility that allows greater
 control over which packages are removed.