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Not sure if this is coincidence or even if this was already mentioned on HG, but Ripgrep had a release yesterday with a few new features. https://github.com/Bu

by tux1968 8y ago

Not sure if this is coincidence or even if this was already mentioned on HG, but Ripgrep had a release yesterday with a few new features. https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/0.10.0 https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/tag/0.10.0

StavrosK 8y ago
Fantastic, I use RipGrep every day and just noticed I was on 0.4.0. I wish they had a PPA or an easier way for me to have it update automatically...
- burntsushi 8y ago
  I would love for someone to maintain a PPA. :-) I've looked into it before, but it looks like a fairly weighty process to go through. It does look like someone is working on it though! https://github.com/x4121/ripgrep-ubuntu https://github.com/x4121/ripgrep-ubuntu
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    Ah, fantastic! I've never deployed a PPA so I don't know the process, but how hard would it be to write a tool that would take a few debs and render the static dir to host the PPA? It seems like it shouldn't be as hard as it is?
    - burntsushi 8y ago
      I don't use Ubuntu or Debian. I honestly have not much idea about how any of it works. Like I said, I looked into it and balked. The Linux distro I use has a much simpler build system. It had ripgrep in its repos in a matter of days from the initial release IIRC. ripgrep's releases do include binary debs, but there's no auto-update: $ curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.10.0/ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb
      - StavrosK 8y ago
        Yeah, unfortunately those are versioned so I can't even make a script to have it download https://someurl/ripgrep_latest_amd64.deb https://someurl/ripgrep_latest_amd64.deb. I just added `cargo install ripgrep` to my script but that might prove too slow every time, so I'll see. Thank you!
        burntsushi 8y ago
        Here's a quick little script I put together that should do the trick. It's idempotent, so it won't do anything if there are no updates. I did use `jq` for convenience though. #!/bin/sh curvers= if command -V rg > /dev/null 2>&1; then curvers="$(rg -V | cut -d' ' -f2)" fi latesturl="https://api.github.com/repos/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/latest" latestvers="$(curl -s "$latesturl" | jq -r .tag_name)" if [ "$curvers" = "$latestvers" ]; then echo "ripgrep is up to date" exit 0 fi name="ripgrep_${latestvers}_amd64.deb" url="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/$latestvers/$name" (cd /tmp && curl -LO "$url" && sudo dpkg -i "$name") echo "ripgrep updated from $curvers to $latestvers"
        StavrosK 8y ago
        This is perfect, thank you! I didn't know that there was a GH API endpoint to give you latest release names, that's pretty neat.
        StavrosK 8y ago
        I changed it a bit to be able to update more than one package: https://www.pastery.net/mushya/ https://www.pastery.net/mushya/
- dguaraglia 8y ago
  If you don’t mind the wait to compile rustc from source once (only for tools written in rust, of course), linuxbrew is a pretty neat way of keeping tools that aren’t directly on your distro’s repos up-to-date. Nix is another option.
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    Oh that's very interesting, thank you! Do you know if Nix works well with Ubuntu? I'd love to use it but I didn't think it would play well with apt.
    - yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
      It stands separate from apt, yes.
  - h1d 8y ago
    linuxbrew tryikg to install stuff at a non standard location like /home/linuxbrew makes me question their technical decisions to get started with it.
    - hibbelig 8y ago
      I agree that `/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew` looks weird, but `~/.linuxbrew` seems somewhat okay. Other locations like `/usr/local` or `/opt/linuxbrew` or somesuch might not be writable by the current user, and it seems they would like to avoid requiring root access.
      - h1d 8y ago
        How would /home/linuxbrew/ be writeable by a non root? Using /home/ like /opt/ is just weird. It seems the installer picks ~/.linuxbrew/ if the user doesn't have sudo privilege but no idea how it got to the conclusion of using /home/linuxbrew/ otherwise.
        hibbelig 8y ago
- glandium 8y ago
  It's in Ubuntu, fwiw (via being in Debian). https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/ripgrep https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/ripgrep It might even be installable on older versions of Ubuntu.
  - StavrosK 8y ago
    Great news, thanks! I might as well upgrade, I've been putting it off.
craftyguy 8y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936761 I doubt it's a coincidence. There's a common pattern where a popular new topic/thing on HN generates a few reposts and posts of old articles about the popular new topic/thing.

StavrosK 8y ago

Fantastic, I use RipGrep every day and just noticed I was on 0.4.0. I wish they had a PPA or an easier way for me to have it update automatically...

burntsushi 8y ago
I would love for someone to maintain a PPA. :-) I've looked into it before, but it looks like a fairly weighty process to go through. It does look like someone is working on it though! https://github.com/x4121/ripgrep-ubuntu https://github.com/x4121/ripgrep-ubuntu
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Ah, fantastic! I've never deployed a PPA so I don't know the process, but how hard would it be to write a tool that would take a few debs and render the static dir to host the PPA? It seems like it shouldn't be as hard as it is?
  - burntsushi 8y ago
    I don't use Ubuntu or Debian. I honestly have not much idea about how any of it works. Like I said, I looked into it and balked. The Linux distro I use has a much simpler build system. It had ripgrep in its repos in a matter of days from the initial release IIRC. ripgrep's releases do include binary debs, but there's no auto-update: $ curl -LO https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/0.10.0/ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb $ sudo dpkg -i ripgrep_0.10.0_amd64.deb
    - StavrosK 8y ago
      Yeah, unfortunately those are versioned so I can't even make a script to have it download https://someurl/ripgrep_latest_amd64.deb https://someurl/ripgrep_latest_amd64.deb. I just added `cargo install ripgrep` to my script but that might prove too slow every time, so I'll see. Thank you!
      - burntsushi 8y ago
        Here's a quick little script I put together that should do the trick. It's idempotent, so it won't do anything if there are no updates. I did use `jq` for convenience though. #!/bin/sh curvers= if command -V rg > /dev/null 2>&1; then curvers="$(rg -V | cut -d' ' -f2)" fi latesturl="https://api.github.com/repos/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/latest" latestvers="$(curl -s "$latesturl" | jq -r .tag_name)" if [ "$curvers" = "$latestvers" ]; then echo "ripgrep is up to date" exit 0 fi name="ripgrep_${latestvers}_amd64.deb" url="https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/releases/download/$latestvers/$name" (cd /tmp && curl -LO "$url" && sudo dpkg -i "$name") echo "ripgrep updated from $curvers to $latestvers"
        StavrosK 8y ago
        This is perfect, thank you! I didn't know that there was a GH API endpoint to give you latest release names, that's pretty neat.
        StavrosK 8y ago
        I changed it a bit to be able to update more than one package: https://www.pastery.net/mushya/ https://www.pastery.net/mushya/
dguaraglia 8y ago
If you don’t mind the wait to compile rustc from source once (only for tools written in rust, of course), linuxbrew is a pretty neat way of keeping tools that aren’t directly on your distro’s repos up-to-date. Nix is another option.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Oh that's very interesting, thank you! Do you know if Nix works well with Ubuntu? I'd love to use it but I didn't think it would play well with apt.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago
    It stands separate from apt, yes.
- h1d 8y ago
  linuxbrew tryikg to install stuff at a non standard location like /home/linuxbrew makes me question their technical decisions to get started with it.
  - hibbelig 8y ago
    I agree that `/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew` looks weird, but `~/.linuxbrew` seems somewhat okay. Other locations like `/usr/local` or `/opt/linuxbrew` or somesuch might not be writable by the current user, and it seems they would like to avoid requiring root access.
    - h1d 8y ago
      How would /home/linuxbrew/ be writeable by a non root? Using /home/ like /opt/ is just weird. It seems the installer picks ~/.linuxbrew/ if the user doesn't have sudo privilege but no idea how it got to the conclusion of using /home/linuxbrew/ otherwise.
      - hibbelig 8y ago
glandium 8y ago
It's in Ubuntu, fwiw (via being in Debian). https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/ripgrep https://packages.ubuntu.com/cosmic/ripgrep It might even be installable on older versions of Ubuntu.
- StavrosK 8y ago
  Great news, thanks! I might as well upgrade, I've been putting it off.

craftyguy 8y ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936761 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17936761 I doubt it's a coincidence. There's a common pattern where a popular new topic/thing on HN generates a few reposts and posts of old articles about the popular new topic/thing.