[gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Enrico Weigelt]

Hi folks,

i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain
package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked, 
new version, ...

Is there any service for that yet ?

cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Trenton Adams]

Oh man, that would be soooo sweet.  I want that too. :-P

On 7/5/06, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi folks,
>
> i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain
> package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked,
> new version, ...
>
> Is there any service for that yet ?
>
> cu
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Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Etaoin Shrdlu]

On Wednesday 5 July 2006 12:55, Trenton Adams wrote:

> Oh man, that would be soooo sweet.  I want that too. :-P

Subscribe to some of the rss feeds on packages.gentoo.org, and you'll 
find out which packages come out daily, almost in real time.
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Re: [gentoo-user] automatic notification of changes in certain packages

[Anthony E. Caudel]

>> Hi folks,
>>
>> i'd like to get automatic notification if something in an certain
>> package changes, ie. package foo has been masked, unmasked,
>> new version, ...
>>
>> Is there any service for that yet ?
>>
>> cu
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>>
>>   phone:     +49 36207 519931         www:       http://www.metux.de/
>>   fax:       +49 36207 519932         email:     contact@metux.de
>>   cellphone: +49 174 7066481
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>>
>>

The depreciated gentoolkit program etcat had an option, versions, that
listed all versions available for a package.  Running that periodically
should give you what you want.  You might even customize it a little
more by using a script to watch a particular version.

I don't know whether the function has been picked up in a more modern
program such as equery or not.  I couldn't find it.

etcat is still in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.2/depreciated/etcat/etcat

Tony
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