On 02/24/2017 11:08 AM, Alexander Ploumistos wrote: > Hello, > > I've just received about a dozen of messages like the one mentioned in > the subject, accompanied with: > > pkgdb_updater updated: upstream_url of X > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/X/ > > for a number of gdouros-X-fonts that I updated recently and whose > upstream URL had changed. > > I have not added these projects to anitya on purpose, because upstream > regularly restructures their website, the source packages do not > contain any version numbers, sometimes packages get updated silently > and the development takes place offline. > My solution for monitoring what upstream does was a script that runs > daily and checks the md5 hashes of the current upstream sources and > their URLs against those in Fedora. Can anitya work in a similar > fashion? > > Do I need to take action about these messages or do I just ignore them? Hi Alexander, I help maintain both the-new-hotness and Anitya. the-new-hotness attempts to update projects in Anitya when changes occur in pkgdb (among other things). I assume when you use "X" you don't literally mean "X" and when you say "http://url/project/X"; you don't literally mean that URL? I don't think Anitya can help you monitor upstream because it doesn't download package sources, just scrapes web pages. We could potentially add a backend that does that, though. You don't need to take any action, but I'd be grateful if you could give me a list of package names so I can poke around their upstreams to see how difficult adding a backend would be and also to see what Anitya/the-new-hotness are currently trying to do. Thanks! -- Jeremy Cline XMPP: jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx IRC: jcline
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