I wrote a script: https://github.com/voncloft/Voncloft...heckrepository

That will compare my linux from scratch repository on my pc against distrowatch's package manager - once the updates have been found, Iget a notification and I apply the update to github.... however there are still packages missing for example firefox just released a new version, however apparently nss is out of date and is not tracked on distrowatch. I am currently upgrading nss......had to manually update the script on my repo on github, would have been nice for my script to do it for me lol.....call it laziness but I like my script.

Is there another way to get "notified" of package updates?

Thanks.

This is not a "package manager". I don't think this simple list is meant to be relied on in this manner.

I understand you use LFS without dedicated package management software?
Why don't you get the latest version of each package you want to upgrade from the source you installed it from? You must know how you installed it in the first place?

I use scratchpkg from github for LFS using my own repositories, that I myself write (listed on my original link to github): https://github.com/venomlinux/scratchpkg

I just need "something" that tells my script the latest versions of software as opposed to me searching manually for it. The script I wrote works pretty well to upgrade my local repositories on my machine before I manually send it off to github. Granted distrowatch packages has quite a bit of packages that are logged - but I'd like more.

I am looking to automate this, by now I have atleast 2000 packages, I am looking for the simplest (lazy) solution to get maintain this.

My advice:
make your software search for newest versions of packages right at the source, i.e. wherever the installed packages are coming from.
As I already wrote.

I will not venture into the depths of how this works (I cannot fathom why somebody would want to recreate a package manager), so this remains just a "my 2ct" sort of advice.

As to your problem:
You could lean on some other distro's package lists that are probably more complete and more up-to-date and more thoroughly kept than distrowatch's... Archlinux and pacman come to mind.

Two reasons:
1) every other distro I have come accross has not worked to my benefit - gentoo sucks, arch is too bleeding edge, and ubuntu and mint - everytime I upgraded them they would go to a black screen upon boot and I'd have to reinstall them anyway. I am going my own way here, team built distros just flat out suck in my opinion.

2) its a learning project.