On 05/12/2013 03:21 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi > > > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Don deJuan <donjuansjiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 05/11/2013 11:26 AM, Anatol Pomozov wrote: >>> 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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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 >> Does this only work for packages found in the ABS or will it also work >> for AUR packages one might be maintaining? >> > Only ABS right now. I did it because it is easy to traverse files under > /var/abs and parse them. > > AUR requires additional step on fetching PKGBUILD from server. It should be > fairly easy to add it. What is the recommended way to fetch files from aur? > Just 'wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pk/pkgoutofdate-git/PKGBUILD'? I would do it that was as it seems the easiest way to get just the PKGBUILD. Or could you add a flag where we can pass a directory, say where we store PKGBUILDs for the AUR we maintain. Thanks for the great tool though.
