Arch Linux CN community have a tool nvchecker ( https://github.com/lilydjwg/nvchecker) for periodically checking new versions of software and sending notifications. We have a nightly building bot and a unofficial repo ( https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo) driving by nvchecker. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 2:39 PM, Florian Bruhin <me@the-compiler.org> wrote:
On 02/17/2016 05:11 PM, Jozef Riha wrote:
hello,
this might not be a perfect place to propose new things to pkgbuild but otoh it does affect pkgbuild and does make sense for aur packages. my
is: at the moment the only way that the aur maintainers learn about upstream version bump is either by a user notification system (flags on aur) or some external (rss for instance) checks. this may work to some extent but wouldn't it be nice if the checking function would be the
of the pkgbuild (a new function alongside prepare(), build(),
* Eli Schwartz <eschwartz93@gmail.com> [2016-02-17 19:50:40 -0500]: point part package()..)
and this function would be invoked by an aur wrapper such as yaourt?
the implementation probably would not be trivial due to security concerns but in the end, maybe having a possibility to process an html page with a regex or read rss would be a good start.
j
As you rightly pointed out, that is the job of the AUR *maintainer*.
Check out urlwatch...
Oh, interesting. I wrote http://git.the-compiler.org/webdiff/tree/webdiff some while ago because I couldn't find anything like that, but urlwatch sounds like a bit more powerful. Definitely need to check it out!
Florian
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