How do you keep 3rd party packages updated?

Josh000 · 02-27-2011, 12:56 PM

I am just wondering if you are all on announce lists or what?

I am using SBOpkg, but for the ~30 3rd party packages I have most of the slackbuilds are already out of date, and I don't expect they will be updated when security issues or whatever arise.

So is the only solution to subscribe to the individual mailing list for each piece of software, or is there a more automatic way?

macemoneta · 02-27-2011, 02:00 PM

I use Fedora. For every package I use, there's a repository (including third party packages). By adding the repository to the /etc/yum.repos.d/ directory, the packages are automatically updated when maintenance is applied (nightly).

For oddball and custom packages, I have my own repository maintained with the createrepo and repoview utilities. When I build a new package, it becomes available to all the machines in the house (and friends).

wargus · 02-27-2011, 02:08 PM

I do it with mailing lists, yes. But I have much less 3rd party packages in use than you do (maybe 10), so it is quite easy to handle this way. But I would like to know too if there is an easier way.

dive · 02-27-2011, 02:08 PM

For some things the mailing lists are good, others I keep an eye on myself (like the chromium buildbot ftp), some other things get around by word of mouth (irc is useful for that).

If you find a piece of sbo software that could do with a version bump and it isn't already in pending you can always give the maintainer a nudge.

chytraeus · 02-27-2011, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Josh000

I am just wondering if you are all on announce lists or what?

I am using SBOpkg, but for the ~30 3rd party packages I have most of the slackbuilds are already out of date, and I don't expect they will be updated when security issues or whatever arise.

So is the only solution to subscribe to the individual mailing list for each piece of software, or is there a more automatic way?

I don't know more of an automatic way. What I do is try to subscribe to rss feeds for each 3rd party software I use, which is a lot. It's not that bad since much of the software is hosted on sourceforge or freshmeat anyway. Both sites have rss feeds for each piece of software, at least most of the time. Also, they have the md5sums for them as well. Anyway, I put those feeds in Akregator and watch for updates. I update my slackbuilds that way myself since I like to update it quickly. Oh, I'm also following -current too.

hitest · 02-27-2011, 05:22 PM

I mostly use mailing lists and I will manually check myself to see what is new.