I just weeded out a couple of packages that showed up in the RSS feed that had
not been updated in a while. The showed up because they had recently had some
METADATA corrections. Now that most of the packages should have correct
METADATA, this type of corrections should be rare going forward. I probably
won’t bother to manually remove them in the future. At present, the feed shows
packages updated since the release of FreeDOS 1.2. I figure that is a good
starting point.
If you are unfamiliar with using RSS, my recommendation is using Mozilla
Firefox. It does a pretty nice job of dealing with these types of RSS feeds.
You even have two different ways of using them.
First, you can just view the XML file. It will give you a nicely formatted page
with links and such.
Second, you can subscribe to a feed as “Live Bookmarks”. This will provide you
with a bookmark menu item that updates with the new packages. Clicking on the
link will take you to page on the server.
Unfortunately, Google Chrome no longer supports RSS feeds. However, along with
Firefox and Safari, there are many Readers and Podcast downloaders that do a
pretty nice job.
Once again the here are the links to the package update feeds:
Official FreeDOS Repository Server:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/rss.xml
<http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/rss.xml>
My LOD.BZ Server: https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/rss.xml
<https://fd.lod.bz/repos/current/pkg-html/rss.xml>
Jerome
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