#1 2017-08-28 14:24:42

o9000

tint2 developer

From: Network Neighborhood

Registered: 2015-10-24

Posts: 417

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Cross-distro package version checker

I wanted to automate checking if tint2 is out of date in many distributions at a time. For example to generate a report as here: https://gitlab.com/o9000/tint2/wikis/packaging

In the end I wrote my own script, but I want to share with you some alternatives:

Repology is a pretty new tool that's just awesome: it shows you not just the versions, but also the maintainer contact info. Example: https://repology.org/metapackage/tint2/packages

A command line tool is whohas: https://github.com/whohas/whohas It prints only package versions, but links to the distro's online package search tool (if there is one).

Another tool is https://pkgs.org/download/tint2 It shows only the package version.

malm

Wayland Compositor developer

Registered: 2016-10-13

Posts: 753

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Re: Cross-distro package version checker

@o9000, very impressive script.

I had stumbled across repology - and yes, it's awesome.