Thanks, useful stuff. -AT On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 06:13:09PM +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: >> Hello, >> >> maybe you are familar with the following problem: >> >> You want to get notified when there is a new upstream release. The problem is >> that not all projects offer rss feeds or an announce mailing list. And if they >> do they are sometimes too verbose or don't cover the updates you like. >> >> So needed something to watch a certain website and tell me if anything >> changed. There are a lot of webservices, firefox plugins etc..; but they are >> all too complicated and just don't offer what I need. >> >> So I though it would be quite easy to write something myself using cron and >> lynx. So I after a few minutes I had a simple Bash script whih just does the >> job. >> >> It loops through an url list and prints the diff to the previous run. Running >> this by cron I get an email including the diff everytime one of the observed >> websites are updated. >> >> Maybe someone else has some use for it, too. And perhaps I'll even create a >> git repo for it; though I don't think I should add much more "features". ;-) >> >> http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre/packages/src/w3watch/ >> > > Frugalware has been doing similar stuff for a long while but they have > an up2date field in their build scripts. See for example: > http://www.mail-archive.com/frugalware-git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg20141.html > They recently converted that to a Flasttar function: > http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-stable.git;a=blob_plain;f=source/apps-extra/cksfv/FrugalBuild;hb=HEAD > > The source is somewhere in here: > http://git.frugalware.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?p=frugalware-current.git;a=blob;f=source/include/util.sh;h=68f6f12fe25aa3a1e207a018e0bd63678562c4e6;hb=HEAD > -- > Greg >
