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carmilso

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From: València, España

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My first package: checkpkgs

Hello everyone,

I am Carlos, from Valencia (Spain). I introduce myself by submitting my first package to AUR. You can see it in checkpkg.

It is designed to look for updates of given packages (stdin or args). You can find examples and an animation in GitHub.

Hope you like it and thanks for all!

I will be grateful of receiving any type of feedback.

Last edited by carmilso (2017-09-10 17:21:42)

jasonwryan

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Moving to Creating Packages...

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Alad

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Why are you parsing HTML? The repositories have a JSON interface. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … _interface

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carmilso

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Why are you parsing HTML? The repositories have a JSON interface. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … _interface

True! But at first moment I prefered not to use external programs like jq and finally I left it this way

Slithery

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

What advantages does this script have over a simple...

checkupdates | grep <pkgname>

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carmilso

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From: València, España

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

What advantages does this script have over a simple...

checkupdates | grep <pkgname>

For any reason (that I don't know) maybe you don't want to update your local repositories. Also you can check if some package exists in official repositories or if you have a concrete package updated and you don't want to grep over the grep

Slithery

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

For any reason (that I don't know) maybe you don't want to update your local repositories.

The checkupdates script doesn't update your pacman database, that's the reason it exists.

Also you can check if some package exists in official repositories

pacman -Ss <pkgname>

or if you have a concrete package updated and you don't want to grep over the grep

What's a concrete package?

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carmilso

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From: València, España

Registered: 2017-08-28

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

For any reason (that I don't know) maybe you don't want to update your local repositories.

The checkupdates script doesn't update your pacman database, that's the reason it exists.

Also you can check if some package exists in official repositories

pacman -Ss <pkgname>

or if you have a concrete package updated and you don't want to grep over the grep

What's a concrete package?

Sorry. A package which update you are waiting to.

I know it exists checkupdates, but I find this package useful for specific tasks.

falconindy

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Unfortunately, the name checkpkg clashes with the name of a script provided by the devtools package.

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carmilso

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Unfortunately, the name checkpkg clashes with the name of a script provided by the devtools package.

I don't really know how to change the name of my package without deleting it from AUR. Could you guide me?

Alad

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Upload a new package with a different name and create a merge request ("Submit Request" -> Merge)

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carmilso

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Upload a new package with a different name and create a merge request ("Submit Request" -> Merge)

Is it also necessary to use replaces of PKGBUILD to avoid conflicts with systems where the package is already installed?

Scimmia

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

replaces doesn't do much in the AUR. You want conflicts and provides. You can add replaces as well if you want.

carmilso

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

Upload a new package with a different name and create a merge request ("Submit Request" -> Merge)

Is it also necessary to use replaces of PKGBUILD to avoid conflicts with systems where the package is already installed?

Done! https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/checkpkgs/

carmilso

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Re: My first package: checkpkgs

I have upgraded the package to the version 1.1. The parse of the Official repositories web is now in JSON with jq as the user Alad recommended. Thanks for feedback!

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