On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 07:13, Allan McRae <allan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 28/10/11 14:49, Magnus Therning wrote: >> >> Is there some convenient way of monitoring changes to the Arch repos? >> >> The reason for asking is the work we do in ArchHaskell. Due to how ghc >> (the Haskell compiler) works it's necessary to re-compile and re-link >> a package when one of its dependencies changes. In this case "changes" >> includes a bump of pkgrel as well. Currently we're not trying to track >> any changes to the dependencies living in [extra] and [community], >> which means that at times packages in ArchHaskell breaks until a user >> notices it. Are there any tools that can help out with this? >> > > https://www.archlinux.org/feeds/packages/ Thanks, I didn't know that existed. Now I know the data exists so I need a good tool that lets me monitor a subset of the packages of Arch. Does that exist already or do I need to hack something up myself? /M -- Magnus Therning OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4 email: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx jabber: magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxx twitter: magthe http://therning.org/magnus
