pkgcheck - Check your PKGBUILDs for upstream releases

onny · 2013-05-06 13:22:07

Hey,
I wrote a small Python script which checks my PKGBUILD repository (usually several directories, one for every package containing the PKGBUILD) for upstream releases.
One could use it like this:

It parses the PKGBUILDs and compares their versions with the one in the AUR and the upstream version. To determine the upstream version, it uses two techniques:
- Add additional attribute to the PKGBUILD which provides instructions on how to fetch the upstream version number, e.g.:

_watch=('http://live-installer-autoupdate.s3.amazonaws.com/latest_version.js','([\d.]*\d+)')

As you can see, it fetches the webpage and applies an regex on it to return a version number as string.
- Given only an url or an url in the _watch attribute without regex, it checksums the page and compares the checksums on the next scan. To do this, pkgcheck stores a session file in ~/.local/share/pkgcheck.session with the following format:

[devolo-dlan-cockpit] 
md5 = 56d7df8e89b55055b7285346d02304ed
lastchecked = 1367842691.058724

[ttyrpld]
lastchecked = 1367843163.295527
md5 = 05f1f56a869444bfe9c18e146120230a

Without any additional argument (just a dir/file), pkgcheck should only return package stats for outdated entries in a tabular format. If you supply -a, pkgcheck lists all scanned packages, even up-to-date ones.

Please check it out at https://github.com/onny/pkgcheck and forgive me the bad quality of the code. It should be more a demonstration on how useful such a tool can be.
My inspiration for this tool was pkgbuild-watch (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1116279) which, at least for me, was not really intuitive to use.

Dependencies:

yaourt -S parched-git python3-aur python-requests python-xdg

Best regards,
onny

Last edited by onny (2013-05-06 13:28:55)

karol · 2013-05-06 15:15:16

It reminds me a bit of https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 17048.html

onny · 2013-05-06 15:59:25

karol wrote:

It reminds me a bit of https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail … 17048.html

Interesting but different approach. Thank you for noticing, I'll consider to add this method in the next versions of pkgcheck.

Arch Linux

#1 2013-05-06 13:22:07

pkgcheck - Check your PKGBUILDs for upstream releases

#2 2013-05-06 15:15:16

Re: pkgcheck - Check your PKGBUILDs for upstream releases

#3 2013-05-06 15:59:25

Re: pkgcheck - Check your PKGBUILDs for upstream releases

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