Hi On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 9:51 AM, Don deJuan <donjuansjiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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. Added "-d" flag, now you can specify custom directory where to scan for PKGBUILD files.
