Hi On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 11:33 AM, Jelle van der Waa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 24/03/13 19:23, Lukas Fleischer 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 out-of-date packages.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 "Flag Package Out-of-Date" link.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). >> > IIRC most Dev/TU's use urlwatcher. Adding it to archweb would indeed > awesome. > > The archweb code is available at [1]. > > [1] https://projects.archlinux.org/archweb.git/
I filed a task so it will be easier to track its status https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34447
