On 14.01.2011 22:39, Eduardo Martins Lopes wrote:
Hello all,
I've been thinking on a effective way to automate the process of check
for newer stable versions of the packages i first build PKGBUILDS for,
do you guys have tools for that?
Hello,
that is really an interesting "task". I guess we do not have any tools
for this right now.
Faelar suggested to use the ArchLinux packages as a reference. This is
nice, and will work, as long as ArchLinux does not skip to another major
package-version. Lets look e.g. on the kernel. AL is already on
kernel26-2.6.36/37, whereas we are still on 2.6.32. So you would not
catch any new releases for the kernel.
The only good idea i had was to parse emails sent to their
'announcement list' and generate alerts.
Could be a real pita, since there is a different format for each
project, if there is any at all. Lets take a look on our own
distribution. We do not really have a clear formalized way on how to
report new releases. One page to look at for new releases is
freshmeat.net, but I am unsure, what packages are reported there and
which are not. So, I guess the only real solution is to browse the
package-pages (e.g. by reading the provided URL in the PKGBUILD) and
take a look there.
What do you think?
What are your solutions?
Thanks and Happy new year for ya all.
Happy new year for you as well ;-)
R,
Markus
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Eduardo Martins Lopes
Laboratory of Theoretical Chemistry
Universidade Federal de São Carlos, SP - Brazil
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