Return the information of the named package available for the system.

    refresh
        force a refresh if set to True (default).
        If set to False it depends on zypper if a refresh is
        executed or not.

    root
        operate on a different root directory.

    CLI example:

    .. code-block:: bash

        salt '*' pkg.info_available <package1>
        salt '*' pkg.info_available <package1> <package2> <package3> ...

def info_available(*names, **kwargs):
    '''
    Return the information of the named package available for the system.

    refresh
        force a refresh if set to True (default).
        If set to False it depends on zypper if a refresh is
        executed or not.

    root
        operate on a different root directory.

    CLI example:

    .. code-block:: bash

        salt '*' pkg.info_available <package1>
        salt '*' pkg.info_available <package1> <package2> <package3> ...
    '''
    ret = {}

    if not names:
        return ret
    else:
        names = sorted(list(set(names)))

    root = kwargs.get('root', None)

    # Refresh db before extracting the latest package
    if kwargs.get('refresh', True):
        refresh_db(root)

    pkg_info = []
    batch = names[:]
    batch_size = 200

    # Run in batches
    while batch:
        pkg_info.extend(re.split(r"Information for package*",
                                 __zypper__(root=root).nolock.call('info', '-t', 'package',
                                                                   *batch[:batch_size])))
        batch = batch[batch_size:]

    for pkg_data in pkg_info:
        nfo = {}
        for line in [data for data in pkg_data.split('\n') if ':' in data]:
            if line.startswith('-----'):
                continue
            kw = [data.strip() for data in line.split(':', 1)]
            if len(kw) == 2 and kw[1]:
                nfo[kw[0].lower()] = kw[1]
        if nfo.get('name'):
            name = nfo.pop('name')
            ret[name] = nfo
        if nfo.get('status'):
            nfo['status'] = nfo.get('status')
        if nfo.get('installed'):
            nfo['installed'] = nfo.get('installed').lower().startswith('yes')

    return ret