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senorsmile

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Registered: 2010-12-12

Posts: 72

my auru script to show all available updates with versions and install

So, I decided to hack together a little script that might be useful to someone else too.  I wanted to script that would show me all available updates, from from the official repos as well as from the aur.  I also wanted to see at a glance what the installed versions of each package and the new version to be installed are. 

The output looks something like this:

[shaun@shaun-asus-x202e ~]$ auru
Available updates from core:
vlc                      2.1.2-2             2.1.2-3             
Available updates from AUR:
ansible                  1.4.3-1             1.4.4-1             
Would you like to install all updates without further prompting?
y/n->

Here's the code that I put into a dropbox shared file called arch_functions and source it from ~/.bashrc.   Replace the test_apacman function and associated commands with aur wrapper of choice.  Once this is in place, I simply run auru once a day on all my machines and I get all the information I need, and only press a y or n in order install all updates. 

bold="\033[1m"
endbold="\033[0m"

test_apacman() {
        hash apacman 2>/dev/null || \
        {
                #packer -S apacman --noedit --noconfirm
                #sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm base-devel jshon git curl
                hash wget 2>/dev/null || sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm wget
                origdir=$(pwd)
                cd ${HOME}
                mkdir -p ./tmpaur/
                cd ./tmpaur/
                wget https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ap/apacman/apacman.tar.gz
                tar xfv apacman*
                cd apacman
                makepkg
                sudo pacman -U --needed --noconfirm apacman-*.pkg.tar.xz
                cd "$origdir"
        }

}

auru() {
        updatesavail=0

        ## check that dependencies are installed
        # expac
        hash expac || sudo pacman -S --needed --noconfirm expac
        # apacman
        test_apacman


        ### check core updates
        pacman -Syy
        echo -en "${bold}Available updates from core:${endbold}\n"
        pacmanupdates=$(sudo pacman -Qu)
        for pacmanupdate in "$pacmanupdates"
        do
                if [ "$pacmanupdate" == "" ]
                then
                        echo "No core updates"
                else
                        pkg=$(echo "$pacmanupdate" | awk '{print $1}')
                        pkgvernow=$(echo "$pacmanupdate" | awk '{print $2}')
                        pkgveravail=$(sudo pacman -Si ${pkg} | grep Version | awk '{print $3}')
                        #echo -en "$pkg\t$pkgvernow\t$pkgveravail\n"
                        printf '%-25s' "$pkg"
                        printf '%-20s' "$pkgvernow"
                        printf '%-20s\n' "$pkgveravail"
                        updatesavail=$((updatesavail + 1))
                fi
        done


        ### check aur updates
        echo -en "${bold}Available updates from AUR:${endbold}\n"
        aurupdates=$(apacman --auronly --quickcheck)
        for aurupdate in "$aurupdates"
        do
                if [ "$aurupdate" == "" ]
                then
                        echo "No AUR updates"
                else
                        pkg="$aurupdate"
                        pkgvernow=$(sudo pacman -Q ${pkg} | awk '{print $2}')
                        pkgveravail=$(apacman -Ss ${pkg} | grep "aur/${pkg} " | awk '{print $2}')
                        printf '%-25s' "$pkg"
                        printf '%-20s' "$pkgvernow"
                        printf '%-20s\n' "$pkgveravail"
                        updatesavail=$((updatesavail + 1))
                fi
        done

        ### apply updates if any
        if [ $updatesavail -gt 0 ]
        then
                echo "Would you like to install all updates without further prompting?"
                read -p "y/n->" answer
                if [ "$answer" == "y" ]
                then
                        sudo pacman -Su --noconfirm
                        apacman -Su --auronly --noedit --noconfirm --needed
                fi
        fi

}

Last edited by senorsmile (2014-01-20 04:41:14)