Hi On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Anatol Pomozov > <anatol.pomozov@xxxxxxxxx> 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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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/ >> > I use this[1] software since jully 2012 for my packages. > Now, it handle comparaison against archweb, local pacman, abs tree, aur rpc > or a local cache. > You need to configure it[2] to check your packages, it's not automagic > like yours by parsing abs tree. But I don't want that :) Two tools implemented to solve the problem of discovering out-of-date packages indicates that this issue is important. Arch developer have you though about adding such functionality into standard Arch toolkit?
