script to check aur status

miggy · 2008-05-28 19:49:00

I'm trying to write a script to check the status of a package on aur; ie, to see if its been updated since I've installed it.

Here's what I have so far:

#!/bin/sh

PACK=$1    #package name
PACKID=$2  #package ID on AUR 

#grab last updated of package on AUR
LUPD=`elinks -source http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=$PACKID | grep "Last Updated" | awk -F : '{print $2}'`

LAST=`grep -c $PACK /var/log/pacman.log` #number of instances of package
INST=`grep $PACK /var/log/pacman.log | sed -n ${LAST}p` #get last instance

echo -e "Package: $PACK \n    $INST \n    Last Update: $LUPD"

This basically works fine for manually inputting a package name and AUR ID (though it needs to be prettied up):

[mike@esme abs]$ aurcheck rxvt-unicode-256color 13060
Package: rxvt-unicode-256color 
    [2008-04-18 20:01] installed rxvt-unicode-256color (9.02-1) 
    Last Update:  Sun, 04 May 2008 14

but what I envision is having a two column file with the first column the package name and the second the ID but I can't figure out how to make this loop around for each line of such a file. If anyone can provide some help/pointers I'd greatly appreciate it.

PS Perhaps yaourt can do this for you, but I don't use yaourt and would like to learn how to do this even just to improve my scripting abilities

Thanks!

mazzarelli · 2008-08-27 17:26:06

This is a little old, but I saw it because I was searching for something similar. To answer your question, to loop over each line in a file in a script, do:

#!/bin/bash

while read line; do
  echo "Processing: $line"
done < input_file.txt

I also wrote my own script for doing this. It requires curl and bc. Place this script in the same folder as your AUR builds, and run it.

#!/bin/bash

COLUMNS=`stty size | cut -d' ' -f 2`
for pkg in *; do

  pacman -Q $pkg &>/dev/null
  if [ 0 == $? ]; then
    DOTLEN=$(echo "$COLUMNS - ${#pkg} - 11" | bc)
    echo -n "checking <$pkg>"
    for i in `seq $DOTLEN`; do echo -n '.'; done

    if [ -f $pkg/ignore ]; then
      echo -e "\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bskipping"

    else
      CURR=`pacman -Q $pkg`
      curl "aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=$pkg" 2>/dev/null \
           | grep "$CURR" >/dev/null

      if [ 0 == $? ]; then
        echo -e "\b\bok"
      else
        echo -e "\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bmismatch"
        MTCH=`curl "aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=$pkg" 2>/dev/null \
              | egrep -o "<span class='black'>$pkg [0-9.-]+</span>"`
        LEN=$(echo "${#MTCH} - 27" | bc)
        REM=${MTCH:20:$LEN}
        echo "         local : $CURR"
        echo "         aur   : $REM"
      fi
    fi
  fi
done

It should produce some output like:

checking <jsmin>..............................................................ok
checking <lesspipe>...........................................................ok
checking <syck>.........................................................mismatch
         local : syck 0.55-1
         aur   : syck 0.55-2
checking <tth>................................................................ok

If you have a package you built but is not found in AUR, you can skip that one by placing a file called ignore in that directory. For example, I have a custom built php. I created the filed php/ignore and when I run the script I see:

checking <pacman-color>.......................................................ok
checking <php>..........................................................skipping
checking <pycurl>.............................................................ok

cactus · 2008-08-27 20:15:36

oh god. no need to scrape the html.
use the rpcJson interface. It outputs json, which you can easily regex.. or use a json library to get an array out of it.

example:

APP_NAME="nload"
CUR_VERSION=$(wget -q "http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=${APP_NAME}" -O - |sed -r 's#.*"[Vv]ersion":[ "]*([^",]*).*#\1#g')
echo $CUR_VERSION

mazzarelli · 2008-08-27 20:29:20

Cool. I had no idea that existed. That definitely is easier and should be quicker too. Thanks.

#!/bin/bash

COLUMNS=`stty size | cut -d' ' -f 2`
for pkg in *; do

  pacman -Q $pkg &>/dev/null
  if [ 0 == $? ]; then
    if [ ! -f $pkg/ignore ]; then

      DOTLEN=$(echo "$COLUMNS - ${#pkg} - 11" | bc)
      echo -n "checking <$pkg>"
      for i in `seq $DOTLEN`; do echo -n '.'; done

      LOCAL_VER=$(pacman -Q $pkg | awk '{print $2}')
      AUR_VER=$(curl "aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=${pkg}" \
                2>/dev/null | sed -r 's#.*"[Vv]ersion":[ "]*([^",]*).*#\1#g')

      if [ $LOCAL_VER == $AUR_VER ]; then
        echo -e "\b\bok"
      else
        echo -e "\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bmismatch"
        echo "         local : $LOCAL_VER"
        echo "         aur   : $AUR_VER"
      fi
    fi
  fi
done

Runs almost twice as fast now.

Last edited by mazzarelli (2008-08-27 20:54:16)

marxav · 2008-08-27 23:25:29

mazzerelli, it might not be what you want, but take a look at my aurnotify and pacmansentry, both in AUR. You need to install adesklets.

N30N · 2008-08-28 02:44:09

Thanks for sharing this useful little script mazzarelli. I made a few minor changes for my own use.

#!/bin/bash

# Packages to skip
IGNORE=(
    "blender-svn"
    "xcursor-human"
)

COLUMNS=`stty size | cut -d' ' -f 2`

for pkg in *; do
    if [[ -f ${pkg}/PKGBUILD ]]; then
        DOTLEN=$(echo "$COLUMNS - ${#pkg} - 12" | bc)
        echo -n "checking <${pkg}>"
        for i in `seq ${DOTLEN}`; do echo -n '.'; done

        for i in ${IGNORE}; do
            if [[ ${i} == ${pkg} ]]; then
                echo -e "\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bskipping"
                continue 2
            fi
        done
        AUR_INFO=`curl "aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=info&arg=${pkg}" 2>/dev/null`

        if [[ $AUR_INFO == *"No result found"* ]]; then
            echo -e "\b\b\bn/a"
        else
            LOCAL_VER=`sed -rn -e 's/^pkgver=(.*)$/\1-/p' \
                -e 's/^pkgrel=(.*)$/\1/p' ${pkg}/PKGBUILD | tr -d "\n"`
            AUR_VER=`echo ${AUR_INFO} | sed -r 's#.*"[Vv]ersion":[ "]*([^",]*).*#\1#g'`

            if [[ $LOCAL_VER == $AUR_VER ]]; then
                echo -e "\b\bok"
            else
                echo -e "\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bmismatch"
                echo "         local version : $LOCAL_VER"
                echo "           aur version : $AUR_VER"
            fi

            if [[ `echo $AUR_INFO -n | grep -c '"OutOfDate":"1"'` == "1" ]]; then
                echo "              aur flag : out of date"
            fi
        fi
    fi
done

unset IGNORE COLUMNS DOTLEN LOCAL_VER AUR_INFO AUR_VER

aurino · 2009-03-19 22:06:32

Why not use spidermonkeys commandline javascript tool directly to parse the JSON? Here's a proof of concept:

0 1 # js -e "
> o=`wget -q -O - http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search\&arg=ifile`;
> if (o.type !== 'error') {
>   r = o.results;
>   for (i in r) {
>     print(r[i]['Name'], '\t', r[i]['Description']);
>   }
> }
> "
avifile          A library that allows you to read and write compressed AVI files
perl-config-inifiles     A Perl module for reading .ini-style configuration files
libtifiles2      libtifiles2 for ktigcc, tilp2 and tiemu3
libtifiles       TI File format library

Daenyth · 2009-03-20 00:44:32

Oh wow, I had no idea such a thing existed... Very cool!

aurino · 2009-03-21 23:30:26

Daenyth wrote:

Oh wow, I had no idea such a thing existed... Very cool!

Expanding on my suggestion, here's the bash/js-script I use to find packages in AUR:

wget="/usr/bin/wget -q -O-"
aurrepo="http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search&arg="
js="/usr/bin/js"
aur() {
    local iam="${FUNCNAME[0]}:"
    local cmd="${1}"
    local what="${2}"
    local aurresult=""
    [[ -z "${cmd}" ]] && {
        echo "${iam}: use ${iam} (cmd) searchstring"
        return 1
    }          
    aurresult="$(${wget} ${aurrepo}${what})"
    ${js} -e "  
    var out = ${aurresult};
    var res = out.results;
    var i, j, len;
    var tabs = '                                             ';
    var tabstop1 = 13;
    var oneline1 = {
        'ID':true, 'CategoryID':true, 'NumVotes':true,
        'OutOfDate':true, 'License':true
    };
    var oneline2 = {'Name':true, 'Version':true};
    var line1='', line2='';
    var others = {};
    function tabto(string) {
        return tabs.substring(1, tabstop1 - string.length);
    };
    if (out.type === 'error') {
        print(res);
        quit(1);
    }
    for (i in res) {
        others = {};
        line1 = '';
        line2 = '';
        for (j in res[i]) {
            if ((typeof oneline1[j] !== 'undefined')
                && (typeof res[i][j] === 'string')) {
                if (line1.length > 0) line1 = line1 + '; ';
                line1 = line1 + j + ': ' + res[i][j];
            } else if ((typeof oneline2[j] !== 'undefined')
                       && (typeof res[i][j] === 'string')) {
                if (line2.length > 0) line2 = line2 + '; ';
                line2 = line2 + j + ': ' + res[i][j];
            } else {
                others[j] = res[i][j];
            };
        }
        print(line2);
        print(line1);
        for (k in others) {
            print(k + ':' + tabto(others[k]) + others[k]);
        }
        print('---');
    };
    quit(0);
    "
    return $?
}

Note that js(1), which has no man-page or other documentation, is part of "spidermonkey", which in turn is part of "firefox". It makes sense to assume that people have this browser installed. If at all possible, the javascript shell should have the file-methods compiled in to be able to use it like many other scripting languages, especially with JSON code. The scriptlet above works with an unmodified standard install.

cactus · 2009-03-22 00:41:37

novel idea using spidermonkey aurino.

zyghom · 2009-03-22 04:45:02

miggy wrote:

I'm trying to write a script to check the status of a package on aur; ie, to see if its been updated since I've installed it.

yaourt -Syvu --aur

is not enough ?

SiC · 2009-03-22 06:05:43

+1 yaourt, the mere fact it updates everything means it's teh r0x0r

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#1 2008-05-28 19:49:00

script to check aur status

#2 2008-08-27 17:26:06

Re: script to check aur status

#3 2008-08-27 20:15:36

Re: script to check aur status

#4 2008-08-27 20:29:20

Re: script to check aur status

#5 2008-08-27 23:25:29

Re: script to check aur status

#6 2008-08-28 02:44:09

Re: script to check aur status

#7 2009-03-19 22:06:32

Re: script to check aur status

#8 2009-03-20 00:44:32

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Re: script to check aur status

#10 2009-03-22 00:41:37

Re: script to check aur status

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