[arch-general] 'Check out-of-date packages' tool

[Anatol Pomozov]

Hi

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 6:13 PM, Sébastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> 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 to find Arch out-of-date packages.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 :)

Two tools implemented to solve the problem of discovering out-of-date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?