* Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> [2016-02-17 19:50:40 -0500]: > 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 point > > 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 part > > of the pkgbuild (a new function alongside prepare(), build(), 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 -- http://www.the-compiler.org | m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/
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