Greetings, On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:36:00PM -0800, Ryan Phillips wrote: > 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.
I don't think that automatically update an ebuild is safe. Maybe the script could be extended so we can run it weekly and automatically send a report to the ebuild maintainer's email from metadata.xml if the package needs to be updated. Regards, -- Andrea Luzzardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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