[csw-maintainers] E-mail notifications on catalog updates

[James Lee]

On 26/01/11, 09:35:20, =?UTF-8?Q?Maciej_Blizi=C5=84ski?=
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote regarding [csw-maintainers] E-mail notifications
on catalog updates:

> - poll a designated location over HTTP (e.g.
http://mirror.opencsw.org/opencsw)
> - download all the catalog files
> - notice which package have been removed and which have been added (or
updated)
> - when a package removal/addition/upgrade is noticed, it would send an
> e-mail to the maintainer of that package: "on date and hour such and
> such, your package such and such (version ...) has been
> removed/added/updated."

> The idea is to send the notifications only when the updated package is
> available externally, meaning that mirror will sync from it, and that
> the buildfarm can be updated with the new catalog state.  It would be
> very useful when building a chain of dependencies.

> Does such a thing exist?  If not, does anyone have code that does
> something close to that?

I already poll active catalogues and could add email notifications but
there exists an RSS feed of all updates that might provide what you want
(and more, other people's, which you might not):

http://www.canoedissent.org.uk/packages/unstable/sparc/5.10/rss.xml




James.