Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-30 Thread Ingo Saitz
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote: > we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a > script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages > appears in woody. You can subscribe to debian-devel-changes@lists.debian.org to get an email whenev

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-28 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 08:49:49 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Younie) wrote: >Or add woody to sources.list and parse the Packages files locally. Since we have a Debian mirror, I decided to locally parse the Packages files on the mirror machine. Greetings Marc -- --

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote: > I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for > all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page > (http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=$package) and > then comparing the version number

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Rick Younie
Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a > script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages > appears in woody. > > I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for > all packages that we have backported fro

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 27 Dec 2000 10:37:17 -0500, Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >apt-cache show $package|grep Source in a perl script, ugly. But a possible way to do it. >Then use that value in the url (in this case db) http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/get-changelog?package=db "No such changelog". Mi

Re: How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Brian Almeida
On Wed, Dec 27, 2000 at 03:17:54PM +, Marc Haber wrote: > Hi, > > we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a > script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages > appears in woody. > > I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for

How to get changelog file for a given _binary_ package?

2000-12-27 Thread Marc Haber
Hi, we use a number of backported potato packages and I am working on a script that sends me e-mail when a new version of these packages appears in woody. I would like to do this by periodically pulling the change logs for all packages that we have backported from the Debian web page (http://cgi.