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!
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