[Slackbuilds-users] Package versions

[Eric Pratt]

Nice!

On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Ryan P.C. McQuen <
ryanpcmcquen at member.fsf.org> wrote:

> On 1/19/17, Eric Pratt <eric.b.pratt at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I know I'm definitely guilty of letting my slackbuilds slip for long
> > periods of time.  I'm trying to prevent that moving forward, but it's
> > really mostly a matter of getting the time to do it and remembering to do
> > it.  So I like the auto-updating idea.  It would get many of us past the
> > remembering to do it part of the problem.
> >
> > But it would be difficult to do.  If there were a single standard
> database
> > or even standard API on project homepages that could deliver the latest
> > version numbers, then this would start to look good.  But everyone has
> > their own method for announcing releases with their own formats.  We'd
> have
> > to parse that out of each project page.  And people change their web page
> > layouts and formats frequently enough for this to be an ongoing headache.
> > If we're not updating our packages fast enough then we're not going to
> put
> > even more effort into maintaining an auto-update feature.
> >
> > However, I do like the idea.  I try to automate everything I do at some
> > point so this is an intriguing project.  Using ffmpeg as an example since
> > it was already mentioned in this thread, an example to search for the
> > current version number could be:
> >
> >   > wget -qO - "${PROJECT_URL}" | grep -o
> > "${PROJECT_NAME}-[0-9][0-9A-Za-z.]*\.tar\.xz" | sort -n | tail -1
> >   ffmpeg-3.2.2.tar.xz
> >   >
>
>
>
> I maintain a small set of builds for packages that I like to keep
> up-to-date that do things like this:
>
> https://github.com/ryanpcmcquen/ryanpc-slackbuilds/tree/master/unofficial
>
> --
> -Ryan
> [ryanpcmcquen.org]
>
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