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
--ignore <package>	Do not check updates for a package.1
--ignoregroup <group>	Do not check updates for packages in a group.1
--color <when>	Specify when to enable coloring: always, never or auto.2
--timeout <ms>	Set a timeout for network connection in milliseconds.3
-h, --help	Display help message and exit.

1. Ignore options can be used more than once. Multiple packages/groups can be specified by separating them with a comma.
2. Default value is auto, it enables coloring only when tty is detected.
3. Default value is 5000.

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