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+# AUR Package Updates
+
+## Files
+
+* `archversion.conf`: Contains non-git packages go in here with their package name, a url containing release information and a regular expression to parse version information
+* `develversion.conf`: Contains git packages that should have their upstream pulled to check for updates
+* `noversion.txt`: Contains a list of packages that shouldn't be checked
+* `checkversion`: Run this script to check for updates
+
+## Setup
+
+Clone this repo as `.updates` inside the directory containing your AUR packages and modify `archversion.conf`, `develversion.conf` and `noversion.txt`