Re: pypi.org change which may affect currency checks
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.lfs.beyond.devel |
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On 12/7/24 13:58, Joe Locash ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote: > I noticed the other day that my python module version checks were failing. It appears > that pypi.org now uses javascript to verify the browser. This causes my curl > requests to fail. I see that the BLFS currency check scripts use php and I suspect > they may also suffer from this. > > As a work around I now check for the latest release of a package from > https://pypi.org/rss/project/<project_name>/releases.xml > which doesn't suffer from the problem. I tried a different workaround but was not successful. I'll use your suggestion tomorrow. I really don't like upstream making "oh so clever" changes to the way they make their packages available. Really what's wrong with a simple directory list like Gnome and KDE use? Right now I have 17 packages to update. :( -- Bruce -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/sympa/info/blfs-dev Unsubscribe: See the above information page