Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-06 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Rob Landley wrote: > On 05/03/2013 09:54:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date >> packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? >> >> As I review the packages, it seems that the only constant is >> inconsistency. Trying to parse

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-05 Thread Rob Landley
On 05/03/2013 09:54:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date > packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? > > As I review the packages, it seems that the only constant is > inconsistency. Trying to parse versions is quite package

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Gilles Espinasse wrote: > > > - Mail original - >> De: "Bruce Dubbs" À: "LFS Developers >> Mailinglist" Envoyé: Samedi 4 Mai >> 2013 18:13:35 Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages >> >> >> Actually, I want to know if a xz ve

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Gilles Espinasse
- Mail original - > De: "Bruce Dubbs" > À: "LFS Developers Mailinglist" > Envoyé: Samedi 4 Mai 2013 18:13:35 > Objet: Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages > > > Actually, I want to know if a xz version exists. My order of preference > is xz,

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread dueffert
Hi, On Sat, 4 May 2013, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de wrote: >> >> Current solution (that I'm happy with for quite some years): >> All parsing stuff is done by a simple single C(++?) program now. >> It basically follows _all_ links and handles general stuff like stripping >> commo

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
dueff...@uwe-dueffert.de wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 3 May 2013, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date >> packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? > I'm kind of doing that for a couple of years now (including some BLFS and > even Wi

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Pierre Labastie wrote: > Not sure it is helpful for what you want to do, but I have met some related > difficulties for the ablfs projects (extension of jhalfs to BLFS): > > Actually, some BLFS packages have added problems compared > to LFS (think of CDParanoia-III-10.2 or PSUtils-p17, for example

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Aleksey Rybalkin wrote: > On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:54:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date >> packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? >> >> Has anyone else looked at this? > > Hi. I wrote something like that not long

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 outlin

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread dueffert
Hi, On Fri, 3 May 2013, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date > packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? I'm kind of doing that for a couple of years now (including some BLFS and even Windows stuff as well ;-]). I started with a b

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 04/05/2013 04:54, Bruce Dubbs a écrit : > I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date > packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? > > As I review the packages, it seems that the only constant is > inconsistency. Trying to parse versions is quite package

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-04 Thread Aleksey Rybalkin
On Fri, May 03, 2013 at 09:54:42PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date > packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? > > Has anyone else looked at this? Hi. I wrote something like that not long ago. Here some ideas you might

Re: [lfs-dev] Latest packages

2013-05-03 Thread Matt Burgess
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 21:54 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I'm going to write a program to automatically identify out of date > packages for LFS. Has anyone already done such a beast? > > As I review the packages, it seems that the only constant is > inconsistency. Trying to parse versions is qui