Package Details: hosts-update 1.38-1

Git Clone URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/hosts-update.git (read-only, click to copy)
Package Base: hosts-update
Description: Injects the mvps blocklist to /etc/hosts to prevent thousands of parasites, hijackers and unwanted adware/spyware/privacy websites from working.
Upstream URL: https://github.com/graysky2/hosts-update
Licenses: GPL
Conflicts: hosts_update
Replaces: hosts_update
Submitter: graysky
Maintainer: graysky
Last Packager: graysky
Votes: 59
Popularity: 0.118144
First Submitted: 2013-11-16 16:22 (UTC)
Last Updated: 2021-03-31 17:58 (UTC)

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graysky commented on 2013-11-17 11:52 (UTC)

Bump to v1.34-1 Changelog: Depends on curl not wget and is now works under BSD/OSX as well as GNU/Linux. Commit: https://github.com/graysky2/hosts-update/compare/v1.33...v1.34

graysky commented on 2013-11-16 17:16 (UTC)

The hosts file is updated rather frequently so making it a member of the source array defeats the purpose of a script that grabs it and updates in a cronjob... the winhelp2002.mvps.org has been online supplying the block list since 1998; I haven't seen any reports of maliciousness. I don't think you need to worry about it.

Nowaker commented on 2013-11-16 17:12 (UTC)

Wouldn't it be better to provide this file http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt as source=()? I'd rather know in advance what is going to land in my /etc/hosts. /usr/bin/hosts-update could have a switch, say --download, that would use the latest version from the Internet. Otherwise it would use a local version from /usr/share. What do you think?

graysky commented on 2013-11-16 16:46 (UTC)

Bump to v1.33-1 Changelog: Better output on a failure to d/l the block list.

graysky commented on 2013-11-16 16:24 (UTC)

Bump to v1.32-1 Changelog: Name change from hosts_update --> hosts-update

graysky commented on 2013-11-10 15:30 (UTC)

Bump to 1.31-1 Changelog: Added proper Makefile and man page.

silvik commented on 2012-10-18 19:46 (UTC)

==> Edit PKGBUILD ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ------------------------------------ ==> n ==> hosts_update dependencies: - wget (already installed) ==> Edit readme.install ? [Y/n] ("A" to abort) ==> ------------------------------------------ ==> n ==> Continue building hosts_update ? [Y/n] ==> -------------------------------------- ==> ==> Building and installing package ==> Making package: hosts_update 1.30-1 (Thu Oct 18 22:43:41 EEST 2012) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving Sources... -> Downloading hosts_update-1.30.tar.xz... % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Time Time Current Dload Upload Total Spent Left Speed 100 2080 100 2080 0 0 2876 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 9082 ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... hosts_update-1.30.tar.xz ... Passed ==> Extracting Sources... -> Extracting hosts_update-1.30.tar.xz with bsdtar ==> Entering fakeroot environment... ==> Starting package()... /build/yaourt-tmp-silvik/aur-hosts_update/./PKGBUILD: line 16: cd: /build/yaourt-tmp-silvik/aur-hosts_update/src/hosts_update-source: No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Makepkg was unable to build hosts_update. ==> Restart building hosts_update ? [y/N] ==> ------------------------------------- ==> ==> ERROR: unable to update

Markus00000 commented on 2012-10-18 07:25 (UTC)

I get the following error messages. I guess, it started after switching to systemd: # hosts_update /usr/bin/hosts_update: line 6: /etc/rc.d/functions: No such file or directory /usr/bin/hosts_update: line 13: stat_busy: command not found /usr/bin/hosts_update: line 15: stat_done: command not found /usr/bin/hosts_update: line 17: stat_busy: command not found /usr/bin/hosts_update: line 28: stat_done: command not found Any possibility to make this package compatible with pure systemd systems?

graysky commented on 2012-04-02 18:08 (UTC)

Bump to 1.2-4 Changelog: Added colorized output PKG Commit: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/hosts_update?id=fc0f053501cd7be87517d43172f70e12e8dcbdd7

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