joelsgp / arch-wiki-aur-orphans

Script to locate any AUR packages that are broken and also referenced in the arch wiki

arch-wiki-aur-orphans

update: lol I think their bot already does this actually,

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Special:WhatLinksHere/Template:Broken_package_link

Here, function update_package_template https://github.com/lahwaacz/wiki-scripts/blob/master/update-package-templates.py

See also:

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Template:Broken_package_link
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Help:Procedures#Fix_broken_package_links
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/ArchWiki:Bots#Package_templates
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_Cleanup_Day

Script to locate any AUR packages that are broken and also referenced in the arch wiki

Current output as of 2023-05-30: https://gist.github.com/joelsgp/f2090cf0744cacd964e6f29a06ef6362

Instructions

1. Clone
   • git clone https://github.com/joelsgp/arch-wiki-aur-orphans.git
2. Install dependencies from PKGBUILD
   • makepkg --install
3. Run the script
   • ./run.sh
   • This will give you some output like: Non-existent: reflector-timer
4. Find where the listed packages are
   • ./aur-wiki-find 'reflector-timer'

Notes

Mediawiki has this feature but I don't think it's enabled for archwiki https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Linksearch

nvm it is, see here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Special:LinkSearch/