Pbget: ABS and AUR PKGBUILD etc retriever

Question

Info page: http://xyne.archlinux.ca/projects/pbget
edit: updated post with current information
pbget is a command-line tool for downloading PKGBUILDs and local source files from the Arch Linux Git interface, the AUR, and the ABS tree
Last edited by Xyne (2012-03-08 23:25:21)

Answer 1

I now use a bash function as replacement for pbget. Probably, you are intereseted...
pbget() {
local extract
[[ "$1" = "-x" ]] && extract=1 && shift
local pkgname="${1##*/}"
if [[ "$pkgname" = "$1" ]]; then
local repos=(testing core extra community-testing community aur)
else
local repos=(${1%%/*})
fi
for repo in ${repos[@]}; do
local url
case "$repo" in
aur)
url="http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/$pkgname/$pkgname.tar.gz"
community-testing|community)
url="http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/community/$pkgname/repos/$repo-$(uname -m)/?op=dl&rev=0&isdir=1"
testing|core|extra)
url="http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/$pkgname/repos/$repo-$(uname -m)/?op=dl&rev=0&isdir=1"
echo "Unknown repository. Exiting..."
return 1
esac
wget -O "$pkgname.tar.gz" "$url"
if [[ ! -s "$pkgname.tar.gz" || "$(file -bp --mime-type "$pkgname.tar.gz")" = "text/plain" ]]; then
rm -f -- "$pkgname.tar.gz"
else
break
fi
done
if [[ ! -f "$pkgname.tar.gz" ]]; then
echo "Package \`$pkgname' does not exist in the repositories. Exiting..."
return 1
fi
# extract downloaded file
if [[ -n "$extract" ]]; then
mkdir "$pkgname"
bsdtar xkf "$pkgname.tar.gz" --strip-components 1 -C "$pkgname"
rm -f -- "$pkgname.tar.gz"
cd "$pkgname"
fi
edit: I should probably give some examples how to use it:
$ pbget pacman
Will search for pacman in the following repos (testing core extra community-testing community aur) and takes the first pacman it finds. So, if there is a pacman package in testing, it would use this one.
$ pbget core/pacman
Get the PKGBUILD of the pacman package in core.
$ pbget -x core/pacman
Get the PKGBUILD of the pacman package in core, extract the tarball (and delete it) and change into the directory which contains the extracted PKGBUILD.
Last edited by xduugu (2009-10-20 00:17:24)