Re: Front-end preview

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On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 02:27:23AM -0600, Sokar Someone wrote:
> *sinister laughter*
> 
> I got a list of about 20 updates that i'm gonna go and try all at once
> this week... should be interesting.
> 
> also found an update for the ppc related boot loader (i think), i can
> fire that off to the list if anyone needs it.
> 
> And also a question:  Is there an 'easier way' to monitor when an
> update to a package that we use comes out?  (other than the down list
> alphabetical thing i am doing now)  Cause its definitely not a small #
> of packages, and subscribing to all those devel lists (some of which
> don't have an 'announce' list, or a 'list' at all) would just be a
> damn nightmare.  And how do we determine when a project is 'dead' or
> 'finished' and to not monitor it for updates any more. (like zip or
> tar or something that can be 'completed')
> 
> yea, the question got long and complicated... but I felt it needed to be asked.

There's a vcheck-based approach that pulls the MASTER_SITES and versions from
the Makefiles and checks availability/latest versions.

I'll see if I can resurrect the scripting foo that pulled that together.
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