From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:56:42 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] Package informations, online and updated In-Reply-To: References: <20120731213729.49c4b3ee@skate> <20120802163133.7c19d637@skate> Message-ID: <20120802165642.677b9915@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Thu, 2 Aug 2012 15:53:44 +0100, Alex Bradbury a ?crit : > uscan: http://manpages.debian.net/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=uscan > http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=devscripts/devscripts.git;a=blob;f=scripts/uscan.pl > > uscan wants to find a separate 'watch' file inside a debian/ dir. It > actually looks like it might not be that hard to hack up uscan.pl so > it just takes the watch line as an argument (though it's been a number > of years since I hacked any Perl), then each package could have a > check-upstream-version target which uses the watch line defined in > that packages makefile and invokes the buildroot 'fork' of uscan.pl to > check whether a newer release is available upstream. I don't know if > any other distros have a similar sort of system, it just strikes me > there's not much point reinventing the wheel here and it's handy to be > able to just lift the watch regex from the debian/watch file for many > packages. Looks nice. Patches? :-) Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com