aurbrokenpkgcheck

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Small and fast tool written in C to check for broken packages that need to be rebuilt on Arch Linux.

• Redirects potentially broken package names to the standard output. This way it can be piped directly into an aur helper
• List the issues for specific libraries or binaries on the standard error output

$ aurbrokenpkgcheck
ardour5
    └── /usr/lib/ardour5/ardour-5.8.0
        └── libardourcp.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    └── /usr/lib/ardour5/ardour-vst-scanner
        └── libpbd.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    └── /usr/lib/ardour5/backends/libalsa_audiobackend.so
        └── libardour.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    └── /usr/lib/ardour5/backends/libdummy_audiobackend.so
        └── libardour.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    └── /usr/lib/ardour5/backends/libjack_audiobackend.so
        └── libardour.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
    ...

Why? Because other tools that do this task were way too slow. So instead of using the ldd script I went straight for the dynamic linker and libalpm to list the files. A call to pacman is still performed in order to get the foreign package list.

Build

Requirements :

• pacman
• libalpm
• pkg-config
• gcc or clang
• make

$ make

Other build targets are available :

make aurbrokenpkgcheck       : builds the release binary
make aurbrokenpkgcheck_debug : builds the debug binary
make clean                   : cleans the directory
make valgrind                : (needs valgrind installed) runs leak check
make static-analysis         : runs static analysis using scan-build from clang

Options

$ aurbrokenpkgcheck --help
Usage: aurbrokenpkgcheck [-h|--help] [-b|--dbpath DBPATH] [-r|--root ROOT] [--colors] [--no-colors]
Options:
         -h,--help          : This help
         -b,--dbpath DBPATH : The database location to use (see man 8 pacman)
         -r,--root ROOT     : The installation root to use (see man 8 pacman)
         --colors           : Enable colored output (default)
         --no-colors        : Disable colored output

Future Improvements

• prettier tree view
• ignore list, since since a lot of packages handle their libraries on their own so reinstalling them won't change their "broken" state.

License

MIT License

Copyright (c) 2017 Philipp Richter