I had discovered both to be woefully behind “most recent” for a number of distributions. In my mind popped a vision of a chart\/table\/matrix of software on one axis and distros on the other, showing which had what versions of things. And little boxes where I could rank the “bleeding-edgeness” of a distro.<\/p>\n
While hunting around, I found something almost like my vision. The distrowatch<\/a> website is pretty damn cool. It wasn’t really set up to compare bleeding-edgeness between different distros, just different versions of<\/em> a distro. For example, here’s Ubuntu’s matrix<\/a>.<\/p>\n I exchanged some email with the author, and it sounds like he just uses a mess of custom scripts to poll version numbers of some of the more “big-name” software packages, common to most distros. Needless to say, mdadm and f-spot did not make the cut. I’d love to be able to add more “tracked packages” via some kind of web UI. A URL plus a regex to extract a version from; almost the same as what’s needed for WWW-PkgFind<\/a> to operate. :)<\/p>\n From the pkgfind<\/a> man page description:<\/p>\n … scans a web or ftp site for newly posted files and © 2006, Kees Cook<\/a>. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License<\/a>. At least two times in recent history, I’ve wondered “is this the most recent version” of some piece of software, immediately followed by “which distro has the most recent version?” As I recall, these were for: mdadm f-spot I had discovered both to be woefully behind “most recent” for a number of distributions. In my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outflux.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\ndownloads them to a local filesystem. … The motivation for this script is to poll places where developers post patches to software we’re testing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n![\"CC](\"https:\/\/i.creativecommons.org\/l\/by-sa\/4.0\/88x31.png\")
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