[arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool

[Don deJuan]

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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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?

Thanks