[SOLVED] Script to automatically update source

Question

Hello,i need a script to use in a pkgbuild that can
1)check this website http://fsinapsi.altervista.org/code/tre … 091228.zip for new version of the archive.
2)change the pkgver if a new version is found
3)download the archive
Maybe it's something like this (taken from the chromium pkgbuild),but i don't know how i can modify it .. thank you.
_bldname=chrome-linux.zip
_bldroot=http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/${_bldarch}
source=('LICENSE.txt' 'chrome-wrapper.patch' "${_realname}.1.gz" "${_realname}.default"
"${_realname}.desktop" "${_realname}.sh")
noextract=(${_realname}.1.gz)
# trick re-determining the build revision and, or entertain the hidden
# makepkg option --forcever, huh
if [ -z "$FORCE_VER" ]; then
msg "Determining latest build revision..."
newpkgver="$(wget -qO - ${_bldroot}/LATEST)"
if [ -n "$newpkgver" -a "$newpkgver" != "$pkgver" ]; then
msg2 "Version found: %s" "$newpkgver"
FORCE_VER="$newpkgver"
else
FORCE_VER="$pkgver"
fi
fi
if [ "$FORCE_VER" = "LATEST" -a "$SOURCEONLY" -eq 0 ]; then
error "Plz omit '--forcever LATEST'; I'll auto-detect the LATEST ;)"
exit 1
elif [ "$FORCE_VER" != "$pkgver" ]; then
rm -f "$SRCDEST/${_bldname}"
devel_update
fi
build() {
if [ ! -r "$srcdir/${_bldname}" ]; then
msg2 "Downloading the latest '$CARCH/$pkgver/${_bldname}'..."
wget --no-cache -c "${_bldroot}/$pkgver/${_bldname}" \
-O "$SRCDEST/${_bldname}" || return $?
ln -fs "$SRCDEST/${_bldname}" "$srcdir/${_bldname}" || return $?
fi
Last edited by Xemertix (2010-01-01 18:30:04)

Answer 1

Xemertix wrote:
tomk wrote:This is PKGBUILD abuse IMO.
Yes i know,but this archive is updated frequently and generally there aren't major changes in the new versions,so a pkgbuild with a similar script may work well for some time...
So would an external script which automatically updates the PKGBUILD on your machine and then uploads it to the AUR? Simplest I can think of would involve bash, wget/curl, and a bit of sed.
You could even run every X hours if you feel like it.