[arch-dev-public] [RFC] archweb nvchecker integration

[Sven-Hendrik Haase]

On 31.01.22 21:25, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote:
> We’ve wanted automatic flagging packages out of date for a while and 
> currently every packager has to come up with it’s own solution. Let’s 
> solve this centralized by integrating nvchecker into archweb.
> 
> nvchecker is a program which can monitor versions upstreams, github, 
> pypi, haskell, crates.io or custom provided for updates. Various 
> packagers already use nvchecker in some form. [1]
> 
> The idea is that every package in svn has a .NVCHECKER file 
> (linux/trunk/.NVCHECKER) which contains the package specific settings i.e.:
> 
> [go]
> source = “github”
> github = “golang/go”
> prefix = “go”
> use_max_tag = true
> exclude_regex = “.(release|weekly|rc|alpha|beta).”
> 
> Archweb will have a systemd service which regularly goes through the 
> pkgbases, check if the file exists, runs nvchecker and if required flags 
> the package out of date automatically.
> 
> For Github sources a token is required so we can do 5000 requests per 
> hour, Arch Linux already has a Github account so this is no issue.
> 
> Felix already has a script which converts a subset of packages to 
> nvchecker. This could be extended to apply to more packages. [2]
> 
> The question is if anyone object to checking these small .NVCHECKER 
> files into our svn repository. If there are no real objections, I'll 
> start implementing this functionality into archweb in two weeks.
> 
> [1] https://nvchecker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#check-crates-io
> [2] 
> https://github.com/felixonmars/archlinux-futils/blob/master/arch-to-nvchecker 
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> Jelle van der Waa

I got nothing to add to what the others have said but I just wanted to 
say that this is awesome and thank you for the effort. :)

Sven
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