Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Trenton Adams]

Oh man, that would be s sweet.  I want that too. :-P

On 7/5/06, Enrico Weigelt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


Hi folks,

i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain
package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked,
new version, ...

Is there any service for that yet ?

cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 5 July 2006 12:55, Trenton Adams wrote:

 Oh man, that would be s sweet.  I want that too. :-P

Subscribe to some of the rss feeds on packages.gentoo.org, and you'll 
find out which packages come out daily, almost in real time.
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Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Anthony E. Caudel]

 Hi folks,

 i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain
 package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked,
 new version, ...

 Is there any service for that yet ?

 cu
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The depreciated gentoolkit program etcat had an option, versions, that
listed all versions available for a package.  Running that periodically
should give you what you want.  You might even customize it a little
more by using a script to watch a particular version.

I don't know whether the function has been picked up in a more modern
program such as equery or not.  I couldn't find it.

etcat is still in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2/depreciated/etcat/etcat

Tony
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