Hi On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu@seblu.net> wrote:
On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com> 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Per discussion in 'pacman-dev' maillist [1] I implemented a tool that tries to find Arch out-of-date packages.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Two tools implemented to solve the problem of discovering out-of-date packages indicates that this issue is important.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?