It would be useful to be able to get an e-mail notification when new packages enter Portage, just like the notification system in Sourceforge. There's probably some nifty way to do this with shellscripts on my own server but I think that would be a bit of a 'hack', and then it would depend on some specific machine here on the end-user side. I don't know if it's technically possible, but maybe the site could use the same userdatabase that bugs.gentoo.org uses so we wouldn't need another set of username/passwords for this thing. Maybe there could also be some simple condition check so that it would only notify if the new package is masked/unmasked, and if the version >= / == <some_number>. Now that I think about it, this masked/unmasked notification would actually need to also check if the state has changed in some older package, but that would still be good too :-).
Hello. About the first paragraph of your comment: There are quiet a few RSS feeds (http://packages.gentoo.org/feeds/) from which you can monitor the activity in Portage. Since you want the changes emailed to you, you could use these RSS feeds along with rss2email (http://rss2email.infogami.com/) or a similar tool tackle the task until the feature you request has been implemented.
(In reply to comment #1) > Hello. > About the first paragraph of your comment: There are quiet a few RSS feeds > (http://packages.gentoo.org/feeds/) from which you can monitor the activity in > Portage. Since you want the changes emailed to you, you could use these RSS > feeds along with rss2email (http://rss2email.infogami.com/) or a similar tool > tackle the task until the feature you request has been implemented. > Thanks for the suggestions :). However, there's a couple of problems with the solution you're offering from my standpoint: - First, it has the same complication as the shellhack thing: It expects that a specific server on the end-user side does a task that is not actually something that applies only to that server; there would be a need to setup mail accounts for the rss2email cronjob and so on. This is not a 'clean' solution in corporate environment. - Second
(In reply to comment #1) > Hello. > About the first paragraph of your comment: There are quiet a few RSS feeds > (http://packages.gentoo.org/feeds/) from which you can monitor the activity in > Portage. Since you want the changes emailed to you, you could use these RSS > feeds along with rss2email (http://rss2email.infogami.com/) or a similar tool > tackle the task until the feature you request has been implemented. > Thanks for the suggestions :). However, there's a couple of problems with the solution you're offering from my standpoint: - First, it has the same complication as the shellhack thing: It expects that a specific server on the end-user side does a task that is not actually something that applies only to that server; there would be a need to setup mail accounts for the rss2email cronjob and so on. This is not a 'clean' solution in corporate environment. - Second¸ the bigger problem: It doesn't actually decrease the work of an administrator. It doesn't much change the amount of time that it would take me to check through the list of all new x86 packages, whether the list be in my email or on the website itself. Maybe I need to clarify what I wanted, specifically. At this moment, I'm anxiously waiting for the 8.2 version of PostgreSQL to be released, and when it does, I'll then be waiting when it enters Portage so that I can install it to some servers. Now, if this e-mail notification would be in place in packages.gentoo.org, I wouldn't need to use my time to read through the list of new packages every morning to make sure it hasn't been released yet; I would simply get the mail when that particular package is in there and all would be well. This would be lightyears faster and more convenient than manually checking the list of all new (x86) packages from the rss-feed to see if Postgres 8.2 is there or not. But don't get me wrong, I like your idea and I might try that at home with the packages I only use there :).
I see. You want a system that gives you the ability to setup notifications with different criteria and when these criteria are fulfilled, to get an email about it. Yeah, that would be quite useful... Regarding the "home solution", a simpler idea I now thought of is parsing the contents of your Portage tree and grepping for the ebuild you are interested in, assuming that you sync frequently enough. Anyway, what you ask is a nice feature to be implemented. I will be looking forward to it. ;-)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 129995 ***
