[gentoo-dev] livecheck - Automatic search and update of ebuilds

[gentoo-dev] livecheck - Automatic search and update of ebuilds

[Desarrollos WEB]

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Recently I have been collaborating on the *livecheck* 
(https://github.com/Tatsh/livecheck) project that allows ebuilds to be 
updated automatically, similar to the project *nvchecker* 
(https://github.com/lilydjwg/nvchecker)

I see a very interesting utility to automate the process of updating and 
searching for new software versions. Livecheck can be extended to notify 
maintainers, upload pull requests, create ebuild tar.gz with go-module, 
etc.., thus eliminating much of the tedious work

Any help will be welcome

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Re: [gentoo-dev] livecheck - Automatic search and update of ebuilds

[Alexander Neuwirth]

On 10/17/24 19:32, Desarrollos WEB wrote:
> I see a very interesting utility to automate the process of updating and 
> searching for new software versions. Livecheck can be extended to notify 
> maintainers, upload pull requests, create ebuild tar.gz with go-module, 
> etc.., thus eliminating much of the tedious work

I have my own imperfect shell scripts [1] to loop over an overlay. It's 
fairly simple:

1. Increase MAJOR or MINOR or PATCH version by 1 and set lower version 
to zero.
2. Check if source exists by running `ebuild ... manifest`. If yes, go to 1.
3. Create a branch and commit the last existing version ebuild and send 
PR (in order for CI to check if all is fine with the build).

I'd be curious if this or portions of this functionality is covered by 
livecheck. If it only needs minor tweaks I'd consider contributing them 
and switching from my scripts to livecheck.

Cheers,
APN

[1] https://gitlab.com/APN-Pucky/gentoo-bumper

PS: I think repology might also be a good host/source for update detection.