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Checking for package updates

Use ent to check for package updates

Section titled “Use ent to check for package updates”

This guide will walk you through the process using ent, a tool built by the AerynOS team to check for package updates. ent checks recipes against upstream sources to determine whether updates are available.

ent is not installed on your system by default. To install ent using moss, use the following command:

Terminal window
sudo moss install ent

How ent works

Section titled “How ent works”

ent scans the current directory and all subdirectories beneath it. It inspects each recipe monitoring.yaml file and compares the referenced stone.yaml recipe upstreams to determine whether newer versions are available.

Because ent operates relative to the directory in which it is executed, you can control the scope of the update check by choosing where to run the command within the recipes repository.

Running update checks

Section titled “Running update checks”

To check for updates across all recipes, run the following command from the root of the recipes repository:

Terminal window
gotoaosrepo
ent check updates

You can also run this command from more specific locations:

  • Repository root Checks all recipes in the repository.

  • Letter directory (for example, f/) Checks only recipes whose names start with that letter.

  • Specific recipe directory (for example, f/firefox/) Checks only that single recipe.

For example, running the command from f/firefox/ will check only the Firefox recipe for available updates.