On 02/01/2018 11:08 AM, Simon Legner via aur-general wrote:
Hi aur-general,
as a maintainer of fifty-something AUR packages I found it difficult to keep track of new upstream versions. I would subscribe to various RSS feeds to keep track of some.
Recently, I sat down and wrote a tool "aur-out-of-date" which, given a username or a list of packages, checks upstream for newer versions. It does so by inspecting the upstream URL and/or source URL, and calling a suitable API (github.com, registry.npmjs.org, pypi.python.org, cpan.org for now) to determine the latest released version. Out-of-date packages are output in red color on the command line.
Give it a try: https://github.com/simon04/aur-out-of-date https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aur-out-of-date/
I'm happy to hear you feedback :) Simon
This looks quite cool! 2 slight questions: 1) How does this handle PKGBUILDs that, say, have their homepage on github, but do not tag releases there -- because :( :( :( -- and instead push releases to PyPI or npmjs or something? 2) It looks like your AUR package is downloading a source tarball, then completely ignoring it by using go get and downloading the bleeding-edge master. I'm not really sure how this crazy language handles packaging :p but I think *maybe* you should be cloning git+https://github.com/simon04/$pkgname.git#tag=v$pkgver and symlinking "$srcdir/$pkgname" --> "$srcdir/src/github.com/simon04/aur-out-of-date/" You should also probably add github.com/mikkeloscar/gopkgbuild/ and github.com/mikkeloscar/aur to your sources. I've also heard that https://github.com/golang/dep is meant to somehow solve all this. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User