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Rorschach

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From: Ankh-Morpork

Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 143

How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

Hi,
I can use

pacman -Qm

to print a list of all packages I installed from AUR with their version numbers on the screen. But is there a way (maybe with yaourt?) to show which of these packages have newer versions in AUR?

I want just see them and not installing those packages. I want to decide that on my own...

Last edited by Rorschach (2009-03-29 16:38:01)

mike_93

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Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 60

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

yaourt -Syu --aur

that should do the trick, and update them if you want it to.

Last edited by mike_93 (2009-03-29 16:57:38)

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Rorschach

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From: Ankh-Morpork

Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 143

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

Not exaclty what I was looking for because this tries to install the packages. I just want to querry aur for new packages.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

don't know if yaourt has this option but you can try yaourt -Qu --aur

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bernarcher

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From: Germany

Registered: 2009-02-17

Posts: 2,281

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

Not exaclty what I was looking for because this tries to install the packages. I just want to querry aur for new packages.

Should be no problem. Just abort when yaourt asks to continue.

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Rorschach

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From: Ankh-Morpork

Registered: 2008-11-07

Posts: 143

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

@wonder: no that doesn't work

@bernacher: I want to do this automated and simply piping a no to STDIN won't work because yaourt asks sometimes also other questions before. I also don't need yaourt to refresh core, extra and community which it does with yaourt -Syu --aur.

vacant

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From: downstairs

Registered: 2004-11-05

Posts: 816

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

My AUR packages are stored under /var/cache/pacman/src. I'm no bash whizz but this works for me...

#!/bin/bash
AURS="/tmp/aurlist"
CURPKG="/tmp/aurcurpkg"
AURSRC="/var/cache/pacman/src"

find $AURSRC -name "PKGBUILD" > $AURS
for AUR in `cut -d "/" -f 6  $AURS` ; do
    PKGURL="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/"$AUR"/"$AUR"/PKGBUILD"
    wget $PKGURL --quiet -O $CURPKG
    if ( diff -q $AURSRC/$AUR/PKGBUILD $CURPKG | grep -q differ ) ; then
        echo "$AUR need updating" ;
    fi
done
rm -f $AURS $CURPKG

bender02

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From: UK

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

If you're up to using arson, then 'arson -U' does what you want.

mike_93

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Registered: 2009-01-31

Posts: 60

Re: How to show all packages from AUR which can be updated?

My AUR packages are stored under /var/cache/pacman/src. I'm no bash whizz but this works for me...

#!/bin/bash
AURS="/tmp/aurlist"
CURPKG="/tmp/aurcurpkg"
AURSRC="/var/cache/pacman/src"

find $AURSRC -name "PKGBUILD" > $AURS
for AUR in `cut -d "/" -f 6  $AURS` ; do
    PKGURL="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/"$AUR"/"$AUR"/PKGBUILD"
    wget $PKGURL --quiet -O $CURPKG
    if ( diff -q $AURSRC/$AUR/PKGBUILD $CURPKG | grep -q differ ) ; then
        echo "$AUR need updating" ;
    fi
done
rm -f $AURS $CURPKG

that's pretty good for being no bash whiz

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