Well, let' have a small FAQ about various things here. I'll give you some code snippets which will make your life as maintainer of Perl packages alot easier than before.
I won't implement a feature which is based on a mail subscription in the near future. I think YOU as maintainer should care for your packages and this tool can be good help. I would like you to pull the information regulary and process it yourself. Have a look at the code snippets to see how you can use p2c for your needs. However, I like the idea of RSS xml feeds and I might implement something in the near future.(top)
Use your cron daemon and a small Perl script to get notified if your name appears on the maintainer list for updates.
#!/usr/pkg/bin/perl
# Shows pkg count to update for a maintainer
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;
use YAML::Syck;
my $content;
my $url = "http://pkgbox.org/p2c/maintainer.yml";
my $myself = $ARGV[0]
|| die "Specify maintainer email on the command line";
unless ( defined( $content = get $url) ) {
die "could not get $url\n";
}
my %maintainer = Load($content);
print "$maintainer{$myself} updates for me.\n"
if ( exists $maintainer{$myself} );
Use this snippet and run it via cron. It will notify you via mail how
many updates are waiting for you. The output of the script looks like
this:
rhaen@wiesel $ ./updatecheck.pl rhaen@NetBSD.org 2 updates for me.(top)
You can use the report by maintainer to retrieve informations about your packages which can be updated. The following snippet will help you with a small report.
#!/usr/pkg/bin/perl
# Shows information about pkg and cpan version
use warnings;
use strict;
use LWP::Simple;
use YAML::Syck;
my $content;
my $url = $ARGV[0]
|| die "Specify URL to the maintainer.yml file";
unless ( defined( $content = get $url) ) {
die "could not get $url\n";
}
my @maint_pkgs = Load($content);
for my $pkgs ( 0 .. $#maint_pkgs ) {
printf(
"You should update %s from %s to %s.\n",
$maint_pkgs[$pkgs]{PKGSRCPKG},
$maint_pkgs[$pkgs]{DISTINFOVER},
$maint_pkgs[$pkgs]{CPANVERSION},
);
}
This might be a help to run it on a frequently basis inside your cron.
Cron will send you a mail with the relevant information about the
packages. The output of the small script above looks like this:
rhaen@wiesel $ ./p5-info.pl http://pkgbox.org/p2c/rhaen__at__NetBSD.org.yml You should update p5-RRD-Simple from 1.43 to 1.44. You should update p5-CGI-Application-Dispatch from 2.12 to 2.13.(top)