aur-check-updates

A very basic CLI app for checking updates from Arch User Repository (AUR).

$ aur-check-updates
:: Checking AUR updates...
foo 1.0 => 2.0
bar 1.0 => [not found in AUR]

The app is designed to perform only this simple task, so it does not build packages nor pull VCS updates.
If you need a fully-featured AUR helper, consider using paru instead.

Usage

$ aur-check-updates [<option>...]

Option	Description
-u, --updated	Also show up-to-date packages.
-n, --nofailed	Hide packages not found in AUR.
--ignore <packages>	Do not check updates for packages. 1
--ignoregroup <groups>	Do not check updates for package groups. 1
--ignoresuffix <suffixes>	Do not check updates for packages with suffixes. Default value is -debug, to exclude autogenerated debug packages. 1
--color <when>	Specify when to enable coloring: always, never or auto. Default value is auto, it enables coloring only when tty is detected.
--dbpath <path>	Alternate database location. Default value is /var/lib/pacman.
--repos <names>	Override working repositories. By default all repositories from dbpath/sync directory are used. 1
--endpoint <url>	Change AUR info endpoint url. Default value is https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/v5/info.
--timeout <ms>	Set a timeout for network connection in milliseconds. Default value is 5000.
-h, --help	Display the help message.

1. Multiple values could be specified using a comma-separated list.

Example

$ aur-check-updates --ignore foo,bar --ignoregroup custom --color never --timeout 10000

Ignores foo and bar packages, ignores all packages in custom group, disables coloring, sets timeout to 10 seconds.

Download

You can download prebuilt binaries from releases page.

Building from the source

Rust 1.70 or up is required.

Install dependencies:

• libalpm
• libcurl

Install Rust compiler and run:

$ cargo build --release

Packages

AUR

• aur-check-updates
• aur-check-updates-bin