I've completed my script to check package versions and set it up to run on anduin at 01:50 GMT daily and email the results to lfs-book. The first iteration is now there run at 2013-05-06 21:07:36 GMT.
The source for the script is at http://anduin/~bdubbs/lfs-latest-files.phps. It takes about 30 seconds to run in order to extract the book's packages from svn and check all the upstream sites. It was a little tricky with all the different directories and file name styles. I'm not sure how fragile the script is because it certainly depends on upstream not making changes. I'm pretty confident that the gnu packages will be OK, but I'm not that confident about sourceforge sites or some of the others. The script is php, but it needs version 2.4 or later and the pecl_http extension. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page