Re: [gentoo-dev] I want to steal your tools

[Mart Raudsepp]

On P, 2008-02-03 at 08:10 +0100, Hans de Graaff wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 22:54 -0800, Alec Warner wrote:
>
> > So reply with a URL pointing at your tool*.
>
> For XEmacs there is the pebuild script which tracks upstreams packages
> and automatically bumps ebuilds for them when newer versions are
> available: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/emacs/pebuild.gz
>
> For Ruby Richard just wrote a similar tool to track which upstream gems
> have a newer version available:
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~rbrown/ruby_scripts/

The GNOME team uses a similar purpose tool for packages released to
GNOME mirrors.
It's currently maintained by dang on a git repository of his, located
here:
git://apollo.fprintf.net/depchecker

It produces a result like this:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~leio/gnome/gnome2.20.html

Which visualizes what version bumps we are missing for a given GNOME
release series.
There have been blue sky ideas how to improve something like this to a
lot more packages, including all hosted on GNOME mirrors and available
from gnomefiles.org lists (we have parse-able data available from them)
and more, but nothing has materialized as of yet.

-- 
Mart Raudsepp
Gentoo Developer
Mail: leio@g.o
Weblog: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/leio