On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 16:42, Marcin Haba <ganius...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Jan 2025 at 15:15, Christophe PEREZ via Bacula-users > <bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net> wrote: > > > > Sorry, but that doesn't answer my question. > > I want an automated way. > > I already check the announcements, but it's not a safe way. > > To be sure not to miss an update, you need an automated way. Since it > > doesn't seem to me that bacularis takes care of it (other software does > > it internally, and sends an email to the admin when there is a new > > version), I have to set it up myself so that I can get it at any time > > without waiting for it to come to me. Be careful, an announcement is > > taking the risk of missing it and therefore not processing it. It's not > > at all functional. > > So I ask, where can I find this reliable information, permanently? > > For now, I do: > > wget -q -O- https://bacularis.com | grep -o ">New release > > Bacularis[^<]*" | head -n1 | awk '{print $4}' > > But this is not ideal, because if the HTML page changes (and it > > inevitably will), I will have to correct the parsing, whereas if a JSON > > page returned the version, regardless of the site's changes, we could > > rely on this page to know the latest version.
Hello Christophe, OK, I have something much better: wget -q -O- https://api.github.com/repos/bacularis/bacularis-app/releases/latest | jq -r '.tag_name' This is the GitHub API that returns JSON. In this example above I used jq command-line JSON parser. It will always show the latest version. Best regards, Marcin Haba (gani) _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
