On 02/17/2016 05:11 PM, Jozef Riha wrote: > hello, > > this might not be a perfect place to propose new things to pkgbuild but > otoh it does affect pkgbuild and does make sense for aur packages. my point > is: at the moment the only way that the aur maintainers learn about > upstream version bump is either by a user notification system (flags on > aur) or some external (rss for instance) checks. this may work to some > extent but wouldn't it be nice if the checking function would be the part > of the pkgbuild (a new function alongside prepare(), build(), package()..) > and this function would be invoked by an aur wrapper such as yaourt? > > the implementation probably would not be trivial due to security concerns > but in the end, maybe having a possibility to process an html page with a > regex or read rss would be a good start. > > j >
As you rightly pointed out, that is the job of the AUR *maintainer*. Check out urlwatch... -- Eli Schwartz
