Feature Request: more options please about lastversion HOT 6 CLOSED

@virgilwashere you might just do this with the new version:

wget $(lastversion --pre --assets mautic/mautic)

Then it downloads both :)

file *.zip
2.15.2-beta-update.zip: Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract
2.15.2-beta.zip:        Zip archive data, at least v2.0 to extract

I see it somewhat useful now, for repos which for instance having md5 checksums in separate files.

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Good suggestions. I will implement them (some with lower priority though, because at least for me the main target is getting the last stable version and only that).

The default behavior is to just fetch HTML of releases page and parse that. Only if nothing is found there, the API call is attempted. The --nosniff option will directly use only in the GitHub API being used (no parsing), so it's more like a showcase how default GitHub API isn't working as expected.

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Thank you!

In combination with these shell functions, lastversion will simplify updating prerequisites for deployments!!

version_lte() { printf '%s\n%s' "${1}" "${2}" | $( command -v sort) -C -V; }
version_lt() { ! version_lte "${2}" "${1}"; }

Virgil

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--self would still be nice to have.

--self        	show the latest version of 'lastversion'

Or maybe --verbose --version actually checks github releases for dvershinin/lastversion ???

Thanks for 0.1.0 release!

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@virgilwashere I didn't (at least yet) add the --self because it makes parsing options code complex (for me : ) .

I'm using similar bash function in my scripts:

function version_gt() {
  test "$(printf '%s\n' "$@" | sort -V | head -n 1)" != "$1";
}

It occurred to me now that it might be useful to integrate version comparison into lastversion itself. As in maybe like this:

CURRENTLY_BUILT_VER=1.2.3 # stored somewhere, e.g. spec file in my case
LASTVER=$(lastversion repo/owner --newer-than $CURRENTLY_BUILT_VER)
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  # LASTVER is newer, update and trigger build
  ....

With exit status 1 for version lookup failure and 2 for comparison failure if required to distinguish them.

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Got the self working as special value of repository argument, so it's not flag, e.g.

lastversion self

Another addition is being able to lookup by a single word (search API does not allow for good caching at all, so careful with rate limits), but it's quite fun seeing this work:

lastversion linux # > 5.2
lastversion linux --pre # > 5.3rc2
lastversion ngx_pagespeed # > 1.13.35.2 works even though argument does not match repo name, which is incubator-pagespeed-ngx

Or this, to check if you use latest Linux kernel:

NEWER_KERNEL=$(lastversion linux -gt $(uname -r | cut -d '-' -f 1))
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "I better update my kernel now, because ${KERNEL} is there"
else 
  echo "My kernel is latest and greatest."
fi

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