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parchd

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AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

A bit of a feature wish thread:

The package search and AUR package search allow sorting by date modified, and there is a quick overview of the most recently modified packages, but no way to search/sort by date added.

It would be nice to be able to see whats new in the repositories and in the AUR - I'm sure there is plenty of useful stuff being added that I'd never think to look for.

Of course it might ruin the pleasant surprises I sometimes get when something I've installed from the AUR suddenly updates from the repositories (python-seaborn springs to mind ).

Is the data stored at all, making it simply a UI tweak, or is there just no record of when something was added for the first time?

Lone_Wolf

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

Check the "First Submitted" date .

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parchd

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

Ah, so for the AUR at least the data does exist, it just isn't possible to use it to sort the package list.

Alad

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

Keep an eye on signoffs:

https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 32208.html

Or store a package list before -Syu:

$ pacman -Slq community > community.txt # or whatever repo(s)
# pacman -Syu
$ pacman -Slq community > community_new.txt
$ grep -Fxvf community.txt community_new.txt | xargs -r expac -Sv --timefmt=%s '%b\t%n' | sort -n

Doesn't account for packages that were moved to the AUR, but you can just check foreign packages (pacman -Q) for that.

Last edited by Alad (2016-04-12 13:22:16)

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mis

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

Maybe you will find this useful?

cower -m "" --sort=firstsubmitted

Edit: Oh sorry, will only list orphaned packages.

Last edited by mis (2016-04-12 15:37:14)

progandy

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

The AUR provides a package list, so you might want to fetch that and compare it to an older copy.

{AUR_URL}/packages.gz
{AUR_URL}/pkgbase.gz

Last edited by progandy (2016-04-12 21:14:09)

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parchd

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

The diffing of package lists is a pretty neat trick, thanks progandy and Alad. It would definitely be nicer if the web interfaces included a way to do this. Then we could also see what new nice things turned up before I started this thread .

Alad

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Re: AUR/Packages should allow sorting by date added

The diffing of package lists is a pretty neat trick, thanks progandy and Alad. It would definitely be nicer if the web interfaces included a way to do this. Then we could also see what new nice things turned up before I started this thread .

This is probably best discussed on arch-projects (archweb):

https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/arch-projects

Last edited by Alad (2016-04-13 07:58:00)

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