AUR package checker

A command line tool for checking local packages installed from AUR (Arch User Repository).

Java version of https://github.com/tfrisk/aur-pkg-checker (which is written in Ruby).

Requirements

• Arch Linux
• Java runtime
• Apache ant build tool

Compilation

Either load the project to eclipse and build it there or use ant from the command line.

Usage

The program checks your local installed packages (with pacman -Qm) and then performs a check againts the latest versions in AUR (https://aur.archlinux.org/). The version comparison is done with vercmp which guarantees compatibility with pacman.

Example:

$ java -jar AurPkgChecker.jar 
Current time is 2015-02-11 11:49:07 +0200
Checking package versions
libudev.so.0: 0.1.1-2 => OK
lighttable: 0.7.2-1 => OK
sublime-text: 2.0.2-1 => new version available: 2.0.2-4

In this example the user has 3 installed packages. Two of these packages are up-to-date, and one has a newer version available.

The program can be run with regular user privileges.

By default the script will download updated packages to a build directory where the script is ran. Automatic download can be disabled with '-c' command line option.

TODO

• Log actions
• Ignored package list (don't want to update certain packages)
• Install new packages

Copyright (C) 2015 Teemu Frisk Distributed under MIT License