contrib: adding checkupdates

Signed-off-by: Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>

[Allan: update contrib/README]
Signed-off-by: Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>
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Kyle Keen 2013-03-21 17:40:32 -04:00 committed by Allan McRae
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commit f797749c4e
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@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ bin_SCRIPTS = \
BASHSCRIPTS = \
bacman \
checkupdates \
paccache \
pacdiff \
paclist \
@ -30,6 +31,7 @@ EXTRA_DIST = \
PKGBUILD.vim \
bacman.sh.in \
bash_completion.in \
checkupdates.sh.in \
paccache.sh.in \
paclog-pkglist.sh.in \
pacdiff.sh.in \
@ -93,6 +95,7 @@ uninstall-local:
bacman: $(srcdir)/bacman.sh.in
bash_completion: $(srcdir)/bash_completion.in
checkupdates: $(srcdir)/checkupdates.sh.in
paccache: $(srcdir)/paccache.sh.in $(top_srcdir)/scripts/library/parseopts.sh $(top_srcdir)/scripts/library/size_to_human.sh
pacdiff: $(srcdir)/pacdiff.sh.in
paclist: $(srcdir)/paclist.sh.in

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@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ database entries. Useful for reuse, or possible config file extension.
bash_completion - a bash completion script for pacman, install in
/etc/bash_completion.d/ for use (but rename to something descriptive!).
checkupdates - print a list of pending updates without touching the system
sync databases (for safety on rolling release distributions).
paccache - a flexible package cache cleaning utility that allows greater
control over which packages are removed.

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@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
#!/bin/bash
#
# checkupdates: Safely print a list of pending updates.
#
# Copyright (c) 2013 Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
#
if (( $# > 0 )); then
echo "checkupdate: Safely print a list of pending updates."
echo "Use: checkupdates"
echo "Export the 'CHECKUPDATE_DB' variable to change the path of the temporary database."
exit 0
fi
if [[ -z $CHECKUPDATE_DB ]]; then
CHECKUPDATE_DB="${TMPDIR:-/tmp}/checkup-db-${USER}/"
fi
trap 'rm -f $CHECKUPDATE_DB/db.lck' INT TERM EXIT
DBPath="${DBPath:-@localstatedir@/lib/pacman/}"
eval $(awk -F' *= *' '$1 ~ /DBPath/ { print $1 "=" $2 }' /etc/pacman.conf)
mkdir -p "$CHECKUPDATE_DB"
ln -s "${DBPath}/local" "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
fakeroot pacman -Sy --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" &> /dev/null
pacman -Qqu --dbpath "$CHECKUPDATE_DB" 2> /dev/null
exit 0
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