vicious/pacman.lua

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-- Licensed under the GNU General Public License version 2
-- * Copyright (C) 2009 Adrian C. <anrxc_sysphere_org>
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-- {{{ Grab environment
local tonumber = tonumber
local io = { popen = io.popen }
local setmetatable = setmetatable
-- }}}
-- Pacman: provides number of pending updates on Arch Linux
module("vicious.pacman")
-- {{{ Pacman widget type
function worker(format)
-- Check if updates are available
local f = io.popen("pacman -Qu")
-- Initialise updates
local updates = 0
-- Get data
for line in f:lines() do
-- Pacman 3.3 returns one package on a line, without any extra
-- information
updates = updates + 1
-- Pacman 3.2 returns 'Targets:' followed by a number of
-- available updates and a list of packages all on one
-- line. Since the number is provided we don't have to count
-- them
--updates = line:match("^Targets[%s]%(([%d]+)%)") or 0
-- If the count changed then break out of the loop
--if tonumber(updates) > 0 then
-- break
--end
end
f:close()
return {updates}
end
-- }}}
setmetatable(_M, { __call = function(_, ...) return worker(...) end })