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ighea

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From: Finland

Registered: 2007-10-20

Posts: 118

ABSChecker:Check if ABS has newer version available than repositories

Because I have plenty of time to possibly reinvent things I have created a little piece of python script that compares packages in current pacman repositories against PKGBUILDs in local ABS database and reports (in theory) all out-of-date packages / packages with lesser version number than their ABS PKGBUILDs.

It was greated for PlugBox project (Arch Linux for plug computers) and I though I could share it with you all and change knowledge! I was about to jump of a roof when I noticed that some PKGBUILDs are used to create several packages at once. Oh the horror. In those cases the script dies horribly... in possible functionality.

I don't know if this is the right forums section, but admins always do their job well in these matters!

http://www.ihku.biz/abschecker/

Laugh at me! It is your great change to provide a link to a similar utility done better!

Have fun!

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