RSS Feed for FreeBSD /usr/ports/UPDATING
Hi everyone,
Since I’ve transitioned to FreeBSD, one thing I haven’t done regularly is keep track of the /usr/ports/UPDATING file. This file contains important information about incompatible changes to ports that could cause a port upgrade to break or yield unexpected results. Therefore, it’s important to check it before running a wholesale upgrade on a production server.
I’ve been using Awasu as my desktop RSS reader, and every time I find something I want to keep track of without having to remember to do so, I look for an RSS feed. The contents of the UPDATING file seem a natural fit for delivery as an RSS feed, but a few Google searches yielded no results.
Finally, I went straight to the freebsd-ports mailing list archive, and simply searched for “rss”. Lo and behold, Alex Kapranoff set up a feed back in 2005: http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-ports/2005-June/024285.html
The feed URL is http://kapranoff.ru/~kappa/files/ports.UPDATING.rss20.xml, for anyone who’s interested. Thanks Alex!
Keep in touch,
Greg
SourceHosting.net, LLC
It appears this feed has not been updated since 2008.
Comment by dave
— June 4, 2010 @ 9:26 am
Right you are! The link checker here only ensures that the site responds, but not when the last update occurred, so I missed that.
I’ll have to set up a process here to generate a new feed RSS feed (possibly hosted on freebsd.org) or come up with some other method for publicizing /usr/ports/UPDATING changes from within the ports infrastructure. There have been a lot of questions posted on freebsd-questions lately that could be have solved by reading the notes first.
Thank you,
Greg
Comment by Greg Larkin
— June 4, 2010 @ 1:15 pm
JFYI, I have working feeds on http://updating.versia.com/
Comment by Alexander Kojevnikov
— September 25, 2010 @ 10:33 pm
Hi Alexander,
Thanks very much for that, and I tweeted about it the other day, too: http://twitter.com/sourcehosting/status/25422045739. The feed will be very helpful for the FreeBSD community!
Cheers,
Greg
Comment by Greg Larkin
— September 29, 2010 @ 10:07 am