nvchecker is a program which can monitor versions upstreams, github, pypi, haskell, crates.io or custom provided for updates. Various packagers already use nvchecker in some form. [1]
The idea is that every package in svn has a .NVCHECKER file (linux/trunk/.NVCHECKER) which contains the package specific settings i.e.:
[go] source = “github” github = “golang/go” prefix = “go” use_max_tag = true exclude_regex = “.(release|weekly|rc|alpha|beta).”Archweb will have a systemd service which regularly goes through the pkgbases, check if the file exists, runs nvchecker and if required flags the package out of date automatically.
For Github sources a token is required so we can do 5000 requests per hour, Arch Linux already has a Github account so this is no issue.
Felix already has a script which converts a subset of packages to nvchecker. This could be extended to apply to more packages. [2]
The question is if anyone object to checking these small .NVCHECKER files into our svn repository. If there are no real objections, I'll start implementing this functionality into archweb in two weeks.
[1] https://nvchecker.readthedocs.io/en/latest/usage.html#check-crates-io[2] https://github.com/felixonmars/archlinux-futils/blob/master/arch-to-nvchecker
Greetings, Jelle van der Waa
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