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Working with ck4up

Author

Danny Rawlins

Description

Ck4up is a utility to monitor web pages for updates. So it's a lot easier to see when a project releases a new archive to then check and update the Pkgfile.

Instructions

Install ck4up.

# prt-get depinst ck4up

Now edit ~/.ck4up/ck4up.conf

$ $EDITOR ~/.ck4up/ck4up.conf

Here is a example ck4up.conf

@TAR@ @NAME@-.*?\.tar\.[bg]z2?
@SFID@ http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=
@BERLIOSID@ http://developer.berlios.de/project/showfiles.php?group_id=
@GNUID@ http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/@NAME@/

bmp md5 @SFID@95272 @TAR@
beautifulsoup md5 http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/download/ BeautifulSoup-[0-9.]+
ladspa md5 http://www.ladspa.org/download/ ladspa_sdk_[.0-9]+
ddrescue md5 @GNUID@ @TAR@

Now run.

$ ck4up

To initialize for the first time. And once that's done you just run ck4up periodically to see if anything has changed.

How to manage your configuration file.

How to quickly generate a template to work with.

Change directory to where your ports are.

$ cd ~/var/cwd/remote/ports/crux/contrib

Generate a list of your ports. Replace the name of course :P.

$ PORTS="`grep "# Maintainer: Danny Rawlins" */Pkgfile | awk -F / '{print $1}' | xargs`"

Now run this command to generate your configuration file.

$ for p in $PORTS; do
> . $p/Pkgfile
> echo "$p md5 ${source[0]} @TAR@" >> ~/.ck4up/ck4up.conf
> done
$ unset PORTS

Note this wont be perfect and some editing will be still required, but this should save some of the pain of creating a very large configuration file.

How to check if you have all your ports listed in your configuration file.

Change directory to where your ports are.

$ cd ~/var/cwd/remote/ports/crux/contrib

Generate a list of your ports. Replace the name of course :P.

$ PORTS="`grep "# Maintainer: Danny Rawlins" */Pkgfile | awk -F / '{print $1}' | xargs`"

Now run this command to get the list of ports that should be in your ck4up.conf.

$ for p in $PORTS; do
> if [ -z "`egrep "^$p.*" /home/romster/.ck4up/ck4up.conf`" ]; then
> echo "$p is not in ck4up."
> fi
> done
$ unset PORTS

Now you should know what lines to add to ck4up.conf.

Open all ports I own in firefox.

• Warning this is madness!

$ firefox $(for n in $(grep "# Maintainer: Danny Rawlins" */Pkgfile | \
awk -F / '{print $1}'); do grep "# URL: " $n/Pkgfile; done | awk -F L:. '{print $2}' | uniq | sort)