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simn

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Registered: 2014-09-22

Posts: 1

pacman -Qc script

pacman -Qc does nothing, so I wrote a bash script to scrape the commit message.
Might be useful to someone. Is likely to break. Could definately be done better.

#!/bin/bash

for pkgname in $@
do
	pkgver="$( pacman -Q "$pkgname" | sed -e 's/^.* //' )"
	if [[ -z "$pkgver" ]]
	then
		continue
	fi

	echo -e "\033[1m$pkgname $pkgver:\033[0m"

	if pacman -Si "$pkgname" | head -n 1 | grep -q community
	then
		baseurl="https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/log/trunk?h=packages/"
	else
		baseurl="https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/"
	fi

	commiturl="$( curl -s "$baseurl$pkgname" | grep "upgpkg: $pkgname $pkgver" |\
		sed -Ee "s|.*href='([^']*)'.*|https://projects.archlinux.org\1|" -e 's/amp;//' )"
	if [[ -z "$commiturl" ]]
	then
		echo not found
		continue
	fi
	
	curl -s "$commiturl" | grep -Pzo "(?s)class='commit-msg'>.*?</div>" | head -n -3 | sed -e "s/^class='commit-msg'>//"
done

Spider.007

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Registered: 2004-06-20

Posts: 1,175

Re: pacman -Qc script

Hmm, that is quite useful, it's indeed really too bad most packages have no changelogs.

Last edited by Spider.007 (2014-11-14 18:37:17)

Trilby

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Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 30,330

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Re: pacman -Qc script

Mod note: Moved to Community Contributions

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