Matt Burgess wrote: > The furthest I got was producing > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~matthew/lfs_packages.html
Looks like a very nice start. > From there, I > did intend to write a script to automate what I currently check > manually, but never got around to it. Given the issues you outline > above, the way I would probably approach this is for the script to save > the contents of each of the 'directory listing' style URL (the one > pointed to by the hyperlinks under the 'Package' column in the above > link) and save the contents somewhere. Then, the following day, save > the contents of the same URL again somewhere else, and do a diff between > them. You'll need some 'smarts' in there to ignore diffs between > automatically generated dates, and such like, that no doubt exist in at > least some of those pages, but overall, I think that approach would be > more consistent across all the LFS packages than trying to parse each of > the download location listings individually for updated package > versions. That's an interesting idea. I think it might be appropriate for problem pages like zlib, but I still want to take a stab at parsing more regular listings like autoconf. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
