Update Arch Linux PKGBUILD files for binary packages with the latest stable release from GitHub.

The PKGBUILD must respect a specific format that I use for my own packages.

This tool is mostly intended for my personal use. It is intended to stay small. I use coding agents to help maintain it.

To install pkgup with LuaRocks, use:

luarocks install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/catwell/pkgup/refs/heads/main/rockspec/pkgup-dev-1.rockspec

Run pkgup from the PKGBUILD directory.

The script will:

• Fetch the latest stable release from GitHub
• Download the checksums file from the release assets
• Update pkgver and architecture-specific sha256sums_* in the PKGBUILD

This project is written in Teal, a typed dialect of Lua.

To bootstrap the local development environment, run:

curl https://loadk.com/localua.sh -O
sh localua.sh .lua
./.lua/bin/luarocks install tl
./.lua/bin/luarocks install --only-deps rockspec/pkgup-dev-1.rockspec

To rebuild and install the Lua version, use:

tl gen pkgup.tl
./.lua/bin/luarocks make

pkgctl version from the devtools package has a similar, more advanced feature using nvchecker. It does not update the SRCINFO.

Copyright (c) from 2026 Pierre Chapuis

Some definition files in tealtypes are copied from Teal Types.