I was curious to see how up-to-date the Portage tree was to Freshmeat, so I hacked a script together (http://www.trolocsis.com/files/scanfm.tar.bz2) to compare latest package releases to available packages on freshmeat. Just run scanfm from within the directory (lets not all spam freshmeat's servers). The code I added starts on line 250 (released under the GPL) derived off of the PortageLib by Frederik Arnerup and Daniel Taylor.
Results: http://www.trolocsis.com/files/scan-results Roughly 603 packages need updating. (there are a few parsing bugs) Perhaps someone can extend the script to safely create updated ebuilds within portage or maybe include the logic within portage to query freshmeat (FEATURES=freshmeat) to see if a package has been updated directly. Regards, Ryan Phillips
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