On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:12:05AM -0700, Anatol Pomozov wrote: > Hi, > > I believe in automatization. Any routine work that can be done > automatically should be done this way. > > One such thing that can be improved in Arch project is discovering > out-of-date packages. Currently it is done by users who go to > https://www.archlinux.org/packages/ find the package and then click > "Flag Package Out-of-Date" link. Why to bother users? Why not to let > some bot to visit websites and check for new versions? > > There are examples of package managers that have such functionality - > macports http://guide.macports.org/chunked/reference.livecheck.html > Their Portfiles can have information about how to find released files > (using regexp). Then periodically (e.g. daily) a bot visits webpages, > parses html and checks if new files are present. > > Is it possible to have such functionality in pacman? It would save > users time and make package update time lower.
Some developers and Trusted Users already use tools to check websites for updates. I agree that it might be better to do this in a central location but this is certainly not a pacman issue. Maybe we could add something to archweb (or just use a bot, as you already mentioned).
