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arisinfenix

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From: Germany

Registered: 2018-06-20

Posts: 37

checkaurupdates - Show AUR updates in the style of checkupdates

Just a small script that checks for AUR updates and displays them in the style of checkupdates.

https://github.com/arisinfenix/checkaurupdates

Last edited by arisinfenix (2020-11-01 16:21:21)

eschwartz

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Re: checkaurupdates - Show AUR updates in the style of checkupdates

Do you properly handle the max size of an url query for people with many packages? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Au … imitations

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arisinfenix

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From: Germany

Registered: 2018-06-20

Posts: 37

Re: checkaurupdates - Show AUR updates in the style of checkupdates

Not yet. Thank you for the hint.

Alad

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Re: checkaurupdates - Show AUR updates in the style of checkupdates

I would not hardcode pacman -Qqm - AUR packages are not necessarily foreign packages. You could take pkgname/pkgver strings from stdin instead.

Calling vercmp a high amount of times will get pretty slow, I'd suggest to first check for version equality ([[ $local_version == "$aur_version" ]])

curl -f ... || exit allows the script to exit on server errors.

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arisinfenix

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From: Germany

Registered: 2018-06-20

Posts: 37

Re: checkaurupdates - Show AUR updates in the style of checkupdates

Thanks for your input Alad.

Updated the script. Replacing pacman -Qmq and check for curl success will follow...