Hi On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Lukas Fleischer <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 out-of-date packages.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 "Flag Package Out-of-Date" link.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).
Sure, I can file a ticket against archweb. But I believe PKGBUILD file should have a field that describes how to find a new version for the package.
