Hi everyone Per discussion in 'pacman-dev' maillist [1] I implemented a tool that tries to find Arch out-of-date packages. The tool scans PKGBUILD files is /var/abs directory, extracts download url and then tries to probe download urls for the next version. Next versions look like X.Y.Z+1 X.Y+1.0 X+1.0.0 If any of the new versions presents on the download server it reports to user as 'new version available'. Here is the tool sources https://github.com/anatol/pkgoutofdate To make its usage even more pleasant I added it to AUR https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pkgoutofdate-git/ To use it please install pkgoutofdate-git package: $ yaourt -S pkgoutofdate-git Then update abs database and run tool itself: $ sudo abs && pkgoutofdate That's it. The result looks like ....... closure-linter: new version found - 2.3.8 => 2.3.9 perl-data-dump: new version found - 1.21 => 1.22 wgetpaste: new version found - 2.20 => 2.21 fillets-ng-data: new version found - 1.0.0 => 1.0.1 tablelist: new version found - 5.5 => 5.6 ...... There are some fals positive and negative results though, mostly because download servers return different sort of weird responses. I still work on work-arounds for all these cases. Hope you find this tool useful and it will help to make Arch software even more bleeding edge. [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2013-March/thread.html#16850
