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jdarnold

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From: Medford MA USA

Registered: 2009-12-15

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Update source versions

I have plenty of AUR packages but I don't think they all update like regular ones. The -u pacman option updates if the package version is new, but what about packages that come right from a source server, like Github? Is there anyway to find out which packages I have installed that work like that? And how do I force an update if the upstream source has changed?

sHyLoCk

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Registered: 2009-06-19

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Re: Update source versions

1. Edit the PKGBUILD manually and change the package version,recompile, update.
2. Use a pacman-wrapper, like packer for automating AUR package maintenance.
3.

pacman -Qm | sort

Last edited by sHyLoCk (2010-02-10 17:08:00)

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

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Re: Update source versions

makepkg has some support for automatically noticing if upstream has updated when you try to build a package. See the devel_check() function in makepkg itself.

jdarnold

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From: Medford MA USA

Registered: 2009-12-15

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Re: Update source versions

Not exactly what I'm looking for, although the devel_check is interesting.  I know about the -Qm option, but I'm wondering how I can find out which one of those depend on grabbing it directly from the development system as opposed to downloading a versioned tgz file. The only way a git or svn direct downloaded package would be updated now is if the PKGBUILD file changed, right? I imagine all my packages that are -git or -svn could be "reinstalled" to see if there is a new version. But some of them (like my recently released python-sleekxmpp) download from the SCCS but don't have that in the name.