Scripts I use to update my system from ABS

poiuyt23 · 2013-12-17 05:18:46

Banged some scripts together to update from ABS and sharing them cause I like them - they work together or separate.
gather abs directories into ~/abs directory:

#!/usr/bin/perl
my @upgradelist;
system ("sudo pacman -Sy");
system ("sudo abs");
open FH, "pacman -Qqu |";
while (<FH>){
	chomp $_;
	if (-d "/var/abs/core/$_") {system ("cp -R /var/abs/core/$_/ /home/poiuyt/abs/ ");}
	if (-d "/var/abs/community/$_") {system ("cp -R /var/abs/community/$_/ /home/poiuyt/abs/ ");}
	if (-d "/var/abs/extra/$_") {system ("cp -R /var/abs/extra/$_/ /home/poiuyt/abs/ ");}
	}

DL and make the ABS packages from the ~/abs directory:

  GNU nano 2.2.6            File: makepackages.pl                               

#!/usr/bin/perl
        $absdir = $ENV{"HOME"}."/abs";
        opendir (DIR, $absdir);
        my @directory= readdir(DIR);
        my $workingdir;
        foreach (@directory){
#               if ($file =~ m/^\./){
                        $workingdir = $absdir."/$_";
                        print "calling makepkg on $workingdir\n";
                        chdir ("$workingdir") or die "can't change directories";
                        system ("makepkg");
                        }
#               }

install packages in abs directory:

  GNU nano 2.2.6              File: install.pl                                  

#!/usr/bin/perl
        $absdir = $ENV{"HOME"}."/abs";
        opendir (DIR, $absdir);
        my @directory= readdir(DIR);
        my $workingdir;
        foreach (@directory){
#               if ($file =~ m/^\./){           
                        $workingdir = $absdir."/$_";
                        print "calling pacman on $workingdir\n";
                        chdir ("$workingdir") or die "can't change directories";
                        system ("sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.xz");
                }
#       }

Feel free to comment or improve as I willingly admit I am a crappy coder.
EDIT : My bad code was corrected - sorry was working on it today

Last edited by poiuyt23 (2013-12-17 05:35:21)

jasonwryan · 2013-12-17 05:41:32

Moving to Programming and Scripting...

Mr.Elendig · 2013-12-24 12:19:22

Don't use pacman -Sy, use checkupdates
Don't run abs as root, use $ABSROOT, also you cam tell abs just what packages to download. As a sidenote, abs is often out of date, the gir repo is prefered.

And there already are several existing tools to build/update from abs, why not use one of those?

Trilby · 2013-12-24 12:38:19

If you do use ABSROOT, you can just set it to your ~/abs directory so the first script would not be needed.

thiagowfx · 2013-12-26 02:18:25

Mr.Elendig wrote:

, abs is often out of date, the gir repo is prefered.

Are you talking about this?

Mr.Elendig · 2013-12-27 02:28:12

https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/

thiagowfx · 2013-12-27 15:56:06

I see. So instead of keeping the PKGBUILDs up to date with 'sudo abs', we would issue a 'git pull' instead. OK.

But it looks like this git repo is missing several packages from the official Arch repos, like calibre and dwm (these two are present in the ABS tree, under community).

Mr.Elendig · 2013-12-28 17:22:53

There is a seperate repo for community, just click on the source link from the package page.

Last edited by Mr.Elendig (2013-12-28 17:23:45)

poiuyt23 · 2014-01-08 19:28:50

I will have to take a look at all the suggestions made - the main reason I started this is because I was new to Arch and didn't (and still don't) know all the tools available.

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#1 2013-12-17 05:18:46

Scripts I use to update my system from ABS

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