The Ultimate "When Will The Next Slackware Release Arrive" MegaThread

drkstr · 09-29-2006, 09:41 PM

I have updated the code to be fully RSS 2.0 compliant. You can run it though the feed validator if you want.

http://www.drkstr.org/checkslack.rss

Code:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
## slackcheck-1.5
## by Aaron Miller
## armantic101@gmail.com
##
########################

//initialize variables
////

$strOldFile=''; $strNewFile=''; $strRSS='';
$strChangelog = 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt';

//download new changelog if it has been updated.
shell_exec("wget -N -O /tmp/Changelog.new $strChangelog");

//read in both files to compare
$strOldFile = file_get_contents('/tmp/Changelog.old');
$strNewFile = file_get_contents('/tmp/Changelog.new');

//update our news ticker:
////

//check new file is dif and new file downloaded sucsesfully
if( $strOldFile != $strNewFile &&
    preg_match("/\S+/", $strNewFile) != ''
  ) {

  //update our file to check against
  file_put_contents('/tmp/Changelog.old', $strNewFile);

  //get current date
  $fhCL = fopen('/tmp/Changelog.new', 'r');
  $strDate = fgets($fhCL);
  fclose($fhCL);

  //define RSS template and add the date
  $strRSS = '<?xml version="1.0"?>'."\n".
            '<rss version="2.0">'."\n".
            '<channel>'."\n".
            '<title>Slackcheck v1.5</title>'."\n".
            '<link>http://www.drkstr.org</link>'."\n".
            '<description>Moniters the Slackware-current changelog</description>'."\n".
            '<language>en-us</language>'."\n".
            '<lastBuildDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2006 18:22:01 GMT</lastBuildDate>'."\n".
            '<generator>checkslack-1.5.php</generator>'."\n".
            '<managingEditor>armantic101@gmail.com</managingEditor>'."\n".
            '<item>'."\n".
            '<title>Slackware-current Changelog last updated on: '.trim($strDate).'</title>'."\n".
            '<link>ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt</link>'."\n".
            '<guid>ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt</guid>'."\n".
            '<description>Click the link to view the current Slackware-current Changelog</description>'."\n".
            '</item>'."\n".
            '</channel>'."\n".
            '</rss>'."\n";

  //save RSS file
  file_put_contents('/var/www/htdocs/checkslack.rss', $strRSS);

}


?>

You also need to add

Code:

application/rss+xml             rss

To your /etc/apache/mime.types

VOltar, I'm interested to see your changes as well. Please post them when you get a chance.

regards,
...drkstr

**edit**
note: This code can be made more efficient by only reading in the first line (the date) and comparing the two, instead of the whole file, I'll update it when I get around to it.

theoffset · 09-29-2006, 10:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gmartin

See my post in this thread . I'm trying to use the 2.6x smp kernel from the Tuesday's -current. While reiserfs is supposedly compiled in, it would not boot my partition. Adding reiserfs to initrd fixed it. While I've likely done something wrong, how does one report a potential problem to Pat?

Just drop him an e-mail at volkerdi at slackware.com and describe the issue.

2Gnu · 09-30-2006, 01:35 AM

More changes. WWhat the heck?

Code:

Fri Sep 29 23:41:35 CDT 2006
l/libgpod-0.4.0-i486-1.tgz:  Upgraded to libgpod-0.4.0.  Thanks to Shilo Bacca.
l/pango-1.12.4-i486-1.tgz:  Fixed bogus empty GPOS table warning and other
  minor bugs.
extra/linux-smp-2.6.17.13/kernel-generic-smp-2.6.17.13-i686-2.tgz:
  Rebuilt SMP kernels setting -smp in CONFIG_LOCALVERSION, not EXTRAVERSION.
  Thanks to Tom B. for snapping me out of my old-skool ways.
extra/linux-smp-2.6.17.13/kernel-headers-smp-2.6.17.13-i386-2.tgz:  Rebuilt.
extra/linux-smp-2.6.17.13/kernel-modules-smp-2.6.17.13-i486-2.tgz:  Rebuilt.
testing/packages/iptables-1.3.6-i486-1.tgz:  This one appeared too late to be
  considered for mainline (not enough test time), but it _should_ be stable.
testing/packages/wpa_supplicant-0.4.9-i486-1.tgz:  Added wpa_supplicant-0.4.9.
  Thanks to Eric Hameleers for a good head-start on this one.

Nylex · 09-30-2006, 01:42 AM

Oh cool, wpa-supplicant is in there. I've been meaning to try that. Edit: thanks Alien Bob

.

drkstr · 09-30-2006, 02:01 AM

<sign> I need an /etc/cron.halfhourly folder. I'm being left out of the loop here!

...drkstr

**edit**
there it goes. 27 minutes after the fact isn't to bad, but if Slackware 11 was released 30 minutes before then ..I wouldn't know for a whole hour!!! Something needs to change here.

**edit again**
by the way, could the person checking my RSS feed every 6 minutes please configure their news ticker to recheck no less then 30 minutes. I'll assume it's an honest mistake, but I don't have the bandwidth and might have to add the IP to hosts.deny until I get my upgraded Internet if it continues.

Sorry for the inconveniences!
...aaron

rkelsen · 09-30-2006, 02:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nylex

Oh cool, wpa-supplicant is in there.

Yeah! What a champion!

I wonder if Pat can be co-erced into adding a Madwifi package too?

Carpo · 09-30-2006, 04:22 AM

/me starts to round up the lynch mob

Ilgar · 09-30-2006, 04:24 AM

Breaking news...

Quote:

Sat Sep 30 01:52:09 CDT 2006
testing/packages/fontconfig-2.4.1-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to fontconfig-2.4.1.
Thanks to Frédéric L. W. Meunier for pointing this out.
l/shared-mime-info-0.19-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to shared-mime-info-0.19.

Fluggo · 09-30-2006, 04:57 AM

RELEASE_NOTES has been updated with correct kernel versions and more. Must be closer than ever now...

Quote:

Slackware 11.0 release notes.

Today is Boomtime, the 53rd day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3172,
Fri Sep 29 19:09:37 CDT 2006, Moon Waxing Crescent (45% of Full).

Carpo · 09-30-2006, 05:03 AM

slackware 11 is taking so long to reach us for one main reason

not too long ago pat and his wife had a child - and many sleepless nights followed, so now hes letting us all know what that feels like

dive · 09-30-2006, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carpo

slackware 11 is taking so long to reach us for one main reason

not too long ago pat and his wife had a child - and many sleepless nights followed, so now hes letting us all know what that feels like

LOL you got that right!

marnold · 09-30-2006, 09:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marnold

Works for me with Akregator (built in to KDE)

Unfortunately, even though there were updates to the changelog today, nothing showed up in Akregator. This is for Voltar's version of the feed.

drkstr · 09-30-2006, 01:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marnold

Unfortunately, even though there were updates to the changelog today, nothing showed up in Akregator. This is for Voltar's version of the feed.

You can add mine if you don't mind setting it to repull every 30 minutes or more (it only checks for updates on the hour anyways). My ticker is showing Sat Sep 30 01:52:09 CDT 2006. I belive this is the last update, no?

I think the problem I was having is when people's news ticker was updating every 5 - 10 minutes and my internet connection couldn't take the 100+ hits per hour. I haven't had a problem since the few people still pulling from my RSS feed turned down their timers. (except for you Mr. x.x.239.221, you know who you are!

If you don't update your timer by this eavning, I'm going to have to block the IP until you PM me telling me it's fixed )

regards,
...drkstr

marnold · 09-30-2006, 02:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drkstr

You can add mine if you don't mind setting it to repull every 30 minutes or more (it only checks for updates on the hour anyways). My ticker is showing Sat Sep 30 01:52:09 CDT 2006. I belive this is the last update, no?

I think the problem I was having is when people's news ticker was updating every 5 - 10 minutes and my internet connection couldn't take the 100+ hits per hour. I haven't had a problem since the few people still pulling from my RSS feed turned down their timers. (except for you Mr. x.x.239.221, you know who you are!

If you don't update your timer by this eavning, I'm going to have to block the IP until you PM me telling me it's fixed )

I added yours. Thanks for the offer. Akgregator is set to check the feeds once an hour so it shouldn't be a big load on your box.

Voltar · 09-30-2006, 08:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by drkstr

....
VOltar, I'm interested to see your changes as well. Please post them when you get a chance.

regards,
...drkstr

**edit**
note: This code can be made more efficient by only reading in the first line (the date) and comparing the two, instead of the whole file, I'll update it when I get around to it.

What I did so far...

PHP Code:


			
#!/usr/bin/php -q
<?php
## slackcheck-rss 0.3 Beta
## By David Johns <webmaster AT fsckoff DOT org>
##########
## Based on slackcheck-1.4 
## By Aaron Miller <armantic101 AT gmail DOT com>
##########
## Prerequisites:
##      PHP <= 5.0.0 (http://www.php.net/downloads.php)
##      wget (http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/)
####################

//  Variables (Oh! How they vary...)
  // Location of the changelog, we'll use the main Slackware server since it'll be updated first.
  $Changelog = 'ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt';
  // Output location for the .rss file. 
  $RSSfile = '/home/fsckoff/public_html/projects/slackcheck-rss/slackcheck.rss';

// Fetch the changelog from the Slackware server (Only if updated).
  exec("wget -N -O /tmp/Changelog.new $Changelog");

// Enter file contents into respective variables.
  $OldLog = file_get_contents('/tmp/Changelog.old');
  $NewLog = file_get_contents('/tmp/Changelog.new');

// Compare files.
  if( $OldLog != $NewLog ){
    // Update file to check against.
    file_put_contents('/tmp/Changelog.old', $NewLog);
    // Update RSS feed.
    $hfCL = fopen('/tmp/Changelog.new', 'r');
    // Get the date from the changelog.
    $Date = fgets($hfCL);
    // Close file :-o
    fclose($hfCL);
    // Define and put the XML into the $RSS variable.
    $RSS = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>'."\n".
           '<rss version="2.0">'."\n".
           '<channel>'."\n". 
           '<title>slackcheck-rss 0.3</title>'."\n".
           '<link>http://www.fsckoff.org/</link>'."\n".
           '<description>Slackware-current Changelog Monitor</description>'."\n".
           '<language>en-us</language>'."\n".
           '<lastBuildDate>Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:35:26 GMT</lastBuildDate>'."\n".
           '<generator>slackcheck-rss 0.3 (PHP)</generator>'."\n".
           '<managingEditor>webmaster@fsckoff.org</managingEditor>'."\n".
           '<webMaster>webmaster@fsckoff.org</webMaster>'."\n".
           '<item>'."\n".
           '<title>Slackware-current Changelog last updated on: '.trim($Date).'</title>'."\n".
           '<link>ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt</link>'."\n".
           '<guid>ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/ChangeLog.txt</guid>'."\n".
           '<description>Click the link to view the current Slackware-current Changelog</description>'."\n".
           '</item>'."\n".
           '</channel>'."\n".
           '</rss>';     
    // Put XML ($RSS) into RSS file ($RSSfile).
    file_put_contents($RSSfile, $RSS);
}
// That's all folks :-)
?>

RSS feed is at: http://www.fsckoff.org/projects/slac...slackcheck.rss
All source and changelogs (current & future) is/will be at: http://www.fsckoff.org/projects/slackcheck-rss/