[arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool

[Don deJuan]

On 05/12/2013 03:21 PM, Anatol Pomozov wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Don deJuan <donjuansjiz at gmail.com> 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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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.

Thanks for the great tool though.