Conky Updates AUR

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 02:45:27

how can i search for aur updates with conky?
Unfortunately, "checkupdates-aur" does not work

Trilby · 2023-03-03 03:58:15

I have no idea what "checkupdates-aur" is, but your question has nothing to do with conky. You use whatever tool you want to check for aur updates, and display that number (or list of packages) in conky.

You can just check with the RPC for available updates:

#!/bin/sh

url='https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc?v=5&'

pacman -Qm | sort >| /tmp/local.pkgs
curl -s "${url}type=info$(printf '&arg[]=%s' $(cut -f 1 /tmp/local.pkgs))" \
	| jq -r '.results[]|.Name+" "+.Version' \
	| sort | join /tmp/local.pkgs - \
	| while read pkg a b; do
		[ "$(vercmp $a $b)" -lt 0 ] && echo $pkg;
	done

Last edited by Trilby (2023-03-03 04:08:25)

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 05:51:45

"checkupdates-aur" is a tool to check for aur updates.

In conky I use this to su for arch updates and display them

${execpi 3600 checkupdates | awk 'END { print (NR == 0 ? "System up to date" : NR " package" (NR > 1 ? "s" : "")); }'}

Now I use the same line to check for aur updates via the "checkupdates-aur" tool doesn't work.
Now my question is, is there another way to check for updates with conky?

V1del · 2023-03-03 08:51:51

Why do you use the same line? Did you actually look at the checkupdates-aur output to see whether the same line would work?

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 09:55:05

That's what I have in the script.

${execpi 3600 checkupdates | awk 'END { print (NR == 0 ? "System up to date" : NR " package" (NR > 1 ? "s" : "")); }'}
${execpi 3600 checkupdates-aur | awk 'END { print (NR == 0 ? "System up to date" : NR " package" (NR > 1 ? "s" : "")); }'}

I think I read that "checkupdates-aur" shouldn't work anymore.
I checked that with an update...

seth · 2023-03-03 12:55:17

V1del wrote:

Did you actually look at the checkupdates-aur output

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 14:00:31

How do you mean that?
The output in the terminal?
Nothing is displayed there.

seth · 2023-03-03 14:04:20

"checkupdates-aur" prints nothing?
In that case it's hardly a wonder that conky won't show anything either…

I've no idea how that thing is supposed to work, but what's the output of

pacman -Qm

?

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 14:32:20

pacman -Qm                                               SIGPIPE(13)|1 ↵  0.23   15:28  
aic94xx-firmware 30-9
apple_cursor 2.0.0-1
archlinux-appstream-data-pamac 1:20230220-1
ast-firmware 501-1
aurutils 11-1
autojump 22.5.3-9
brother-mfc-9142cdn 1.1.3-3
brscan4 0.4.11_1-1
checkupdates+aur 1-3
checkupdates-aur 0.04-1
checkupdates-with-aur 1.0-1
gnome-terminal-transparency 3.46.8-1
libpamac-full 1:11.4.1-2
lightdm-settings 1.6.1-1
mint-artwork-cinnamon 5.7-1
mint-themes-legacy 1.9.2-1
mint-y-icons-legacy 1.6.3-1
mkinitcpio-firmware 1.4.0-1
nvfancontrol 0.5.1-2
oh-my-zsh-git r6827.14978859c-1
paccache-hook 1.1.1-1
pacseek 1.7.7-1
pamac-all 10.4.3-1
pdfsam 5.0.3-1
perl-checkupdates-aur 0.04-1
perl-www-aur 0.22-3
reflector-simple 3.3-1
snapd 2.58.3-1
snapd-glib 1.63-1
streamlink-twitch-gui 2.2.0-1
timeshift 22.11.2-1
timeshift-autosnap 0.9-1
ttf-ms-fonts 2.0-12
ttf-nerd-fonts-hack-complete-git 20230303-1
ttf-symbola 14.00-1
ttf-vlgothic 20220612-1
upd72020x-fw 1:1.0.0-1
update-grub 0.0.1-7
wd719x-firmware 1-7
yay-git 11.3.1.r119.g0387dfd-1

seth · 2023-03-03 14:39:06

On a brief glimpse, non of them looks dated?

WorMzy · 2023-03-03 14:47:21

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 14:51:30

thanks for moving

pamac shows an update.
When I

seth · 2023-03-03 15:15:58

When you…? What?

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 15:18:47

sorry vertippt...

loqs · 2023-03-03 15:41:04

barnd3 wrote:

pamac shows an update.

Which package is pamac reporting an update for? What is the new and old version of that package as reported by pamac?

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 15:46:41

pamac checkupdates                            
2 Aktualisierungen verfügbar:
libxi          1.8-2             -> 1.8-3              extra
oh-my-zsh-git  r6827.14978859c-1 -> r6829.95d0c4b60-1  AUR

Edit: "checkupdates" works, it shows me an update in Conky

Last edited by barnd3 (2023-03-03 15:48:30)

seth · 2023-03-03 15:52:31

The git package is probably not reported because the "official" number is at r6192.be4a95297-1, so there's no deep inspection of the upstream git.

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 16:03:13

Great, and what can I do about it?

seth · 2023-03-03 16:13:51

Write a patch or file a bug upstream (but keep in mind that the explanation is speculative for now)

barnd3 · 2023-03-03 16:22:39

OK, thanks for the help!

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