[Solved] Official packages out-of-date flag - where is it stored?

zivziv · 2016-05-16 10:42:12

For example - https://www.archlinux.org/packages/comm … 6_64/nemo/
It's not stored in the sync databases downloaded to the computer during update. Is it stored somewhere on the web? can it be retrieved?
Thanks.

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Last edited by zivziv (2016-05-16 15:03:34)

WorMzy · 2016-05-16 10:55:21

Is what stored? What are you asking about?

Moving to NC.

Trilby · 2016-05-16 10:57:40

Of course it's stored somewhere on the web. You provided a link to precisely where it is stored:

#!/bin/bash

repo=$1
arch=x86_64
pkg=$2

curl https://www.archlinux.org/packages/$repo/$arch/$pkg/ 2>/dev/null | \
                grep -q 'class="flagged"' && echo out of date

zivziv · 2016-05-16 11:05:14

Trilby wrote:

Of course it's stored somewhere on the web. You provided a link to precisely where it is stored:

Thanks, this can do the trick.
But I was looking for something similar to AUR RPC (which provides results in json format), rather than parsing an html... if such interface exists for official packages.

Trilby · 2016-05-16 11:11:20

Eh ... you want a single binary piece of information formated as json? Ok:

curl https://www.archlinux.org/packages/$repo/$arch/$pkg/ 2>/dev/null | \
		grep -q 'class="flagged"' && echo '{"flagged":"true"}' || \
		echo '{"flagged":"false"}'

I get the feeling an XY problem is about to be revealed.

zivziv · 2016-05-16 11:18:21

Ok, what I want to do is to add support for the packages' out-of-date status into pacman/AUR helper app I'm working on.
For AUR packages, we already have this support from the AUR RPC.
For official packages, the only way to retrieve this info found so far is to parse an html page containing package info. This is not efficient in terms of traffic used, processing time, etc, so I'm wondering if there's any other way to get this info, e.g. similar to AUR RPC.
Hope this helps.

Mr.Elendig · 2016-05-16 14:56:25

zivziv wrote:

Ok, what I want to do is to add support for the packages' out-of-date status into pacman/AUR helper app I'm working on.
For AUR packages, we already have this support from the AUR RPC.
For official packages, the only way to retrieve this info found so far is to parse an html page containing package info. This is not efficient in terms of traffic used, processing time, etc, so I'm wondering if there's any other way to get this info, e.g. similar to AUR RPC.
Hope this helps.

zivziv · 2016-05-16 15:02:50

Mr.Elendig wrote:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … _interface

Thanks, that's exactly what I've been looking for!

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[Solved] Official packages out-of-date flag - where is it stored?

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