Only show major updates

[auipga]

Is there a way to only show major updates and hide the minor ones? I found nothing about this topic.

[RaphaelRochet]

One can easily make a little script to filter out whatever is shown and use it as "check command" instead of default checkupdates script. From the extension, there is no filter option.

[auipga]

Ok, thanks. This is a first working example of checkupgrade-filter Usage:

1. checkupgrade-filter like checkupgrade, unaltered
2. checkupgrade-filter --major only major updates (X.x.x-x)
3. checkupgrade-filter --minor only major updates (x.X.x-x)
4. checkupgrade-filter --patch only major updates (x.x.X-x)
5. checkupgrade-filter --release only major updates (x.x.x-X)
6. combine previous arguments as you wish: checkupgrade-filter --major --release
7. checkupgrade-filter --minor-up short for --major --minor
8. checkupgrade-filter --patch-up short for --major --minor --patch In cases 6-8 the packages are grouped in this order: major, minor, patch, release.

#!/usr/bin/env bash

if [ -z $1 ]; then
	checkupdates
	exit $!
fi

major=""
minor=""
patch=""
release=""

while read line; do
	words=(${line// / }) # array ("cryptsetup", "2.5.0-3", "->", "2.5.0-4")
	pkg_name=${words[0]} # "cryptsetup"
	pkg_vold=${words[1]} # "2.5.0-3"
	pkg_vnew=${words[3]} # "2.5.0-4"

	vold_=( ${pkg_vold//./ } ) # array ("2", "5", "0-3")
	vnew_=( ${pkg_vnew//./ } ) # array ("2", "5", "0-4")
	
	if [[ ${vold_[0]} != ${vnew_[0]} ]]; then # "2"!="2"
		major+="${line}\n"
	elif [[ ${vold_[1]} != ${vnew_[1]} ]]; then # "5"!="5"
		minor+="${line}\n"
	elif [[ ${vold_[2]} != ${vnew_[2]} ]]; then # "0-3"!="0-4"
		if [[ ${pkg_vold##*-} == ${pkg_vnew##*-} ]]; then # "3"=="4"
			patch+="${line}\n"
		else
			release+="${line}\n" # example goes here
		fi
	fi
done < <(checkupdates)

if [ $1 == --patch-up ]; then
	echo -en ${major}
	echo -en ${minor}
	echo -en ${patch}
elif [ $1 == --minor-up ]; then
	echo -en ${major}
	echo -en ${minor}
else
	[[ "$*" =~ "--major" ]]    && echo -en ${major}
	[[ "$*" =~ "--minor" ]]    && echo -en ${minor}
	[[ "$*" =~ "--patch" ]]    && echo -en ${patch}
	[[ "$*" =~ "--release" ]]  && echo -en ${release}
fi

[RaphaelRochet]

You could add this to the wiki section, for others to find it ;)