[arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool

[Sébastien Luttringer]

On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Anatol Pomozov
<anatol.pomozov at 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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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 :)

Cheers,

[1] https://github.com/seblu/archversion/
[2] https://github.com/seblu/archversion/blob/master/misc/example2.conf
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