Sorry for the thread-drift, and of course thank you for the music Heinz :) > Could a script using curl and run by cron.weekly (for example) search > source URLs, check whether the downloadable version differs from the local > version, download it if it is, and send a message to the user that an > updated version has been collected?
This is fundamentally flawed, because the existing URL is (hopefully) version specific, so to find a new version you'd have to guess the URL template and guess the next version number. It's futile. So of course Fedora tries to do it this way with Anitya https://release-monitoring.org/about A different approach is Repology https://repology.org/ which uses the many eyes of multiple distros and catalogues the available versions -- of course the above Fedora method is included by reference ;) But a really good maintainer will subscribe to the upstream projects' mailing lists. Cheers -D. _______________________________________________ SlackBuilds-users mailing list SlackBuilds-users@slackbuilds.org https://lists.slackbuilds.org/mailman/listinfo/slackbuilds-users Archives - https://lists.slackbuilds.org/pipermail/slackbuilds-users/ FAQ - https://slackbuilds.org/faq/
