My OperaGetting the latest Opera Next Arch PKGBUILD when the AUR is outdated
Thursday, August 4, 2011 11:21:17 AM
As many of you know I maintain the opera-next snapshot PKGBUILD on the AUR (Arch User Repository). Whilst I generally update this shortly after we release a snapshot, occasionally I have been a little delayed due to other commitments or because I am out of office at the time.
Since we haven't made any major packaging changes for some time, updating this PKGBUILD simply involves updating the Opera version number, build number, URL randomizer and the md5sums within the PKGBUILD tarring the result up and uploading it to the AUR. And since I am fairly lazy I wrote small shell script to gather this information from the Desktop Team blog and create the source package for me.
Anyway I figured I might as well share a simplified variant of this script so that people could use it directly if I am ever a delayed in updating the AUR in the future.
opsnap4arch
Since we haven't made any major packaging changes for some time, updating this PKGBUILD simply involves updating the Opera version number, build number, URL randomizer and the md5sums within the PKGBUILD tarring the result up and uploading it to the AUR. And since I am fairly lazy I wrote small shell script to gather this information from the Desktop Team blog and create the source package for me.
Anyway I figured I might as well share a simplified variant of this script so that people could use it directly if I am ever a delayed in updating the AUR in the future.
opsnap4arch
