On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 09:25:41PM +0100, Jelle van der Waa via arch-dev-public wrote: > We’ve wanted automatic flagging packages out of date for a while and > currently every packager has to come up with it’s own solution. Let’s solve > this centralized by integrating nvchecker into archweb. > > 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 package out of date automatically.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
Using nvchecker for a couple of years now not only for Arch packages, but also for a lot of IoT devices, hobby equipment and more. Pretty happy with nvchecker-notify :) An integration into Archweb would be awesome. Do we remove the ability to mark packages out-of-date manually then? It seems to me that a broken nvchecker config in a certain repo is more a bug than an ood package after such an addition. Best regards, Frederik
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