Re: How to monitor latest packages?

Pat Maddox <pat@patmaddox.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 25, 2023, at 8:13 AM, Michael Grimm wrote:

>> I am trying to monitor the dates of pkg compilation runs by 
>> http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/
>> Is that the correct way?
>> 
>> If so, how can I find out when e.g. rust has been compiled the last 
>> time, because http://pkg.freebsd.org/FreeBSD:14:amd64/latest/All/ seems 
>> to be forbidden to watch ;-)
>> 
>> If not, what would be an alternative?
> 
> Here’s some tooling I use to fetch the git commit of the most recent package build: https://patmaddox.com/info?name=fba4b4491f48d81ffbe7f4304d3dd17797ec47dd7829bddec327422d4c6f346f&ln=16-23
> 
> That helps poudriere’s package fetching by ensuring my local tree is consistent with the latest build and doesn’t have newer stuff.
> 
> You can get build metadata from the API e.g. https://pkg-status.freebsd.org/api/1/builds?type=package&jailname=132amd64
> 
> I haven’t seen API documentation, I worked out query params by looking at the implementation: https://github.com/bdrewery/pkg-status.freebsd.org/blob/master/pkgstatus.py

Thanks, that is very valuable information. This will help me setting up own scripting in order to find out, what the current status of a given package is. I should have thought about investigating how poudriere is deciding which package to download, sorry.

I was hoping that there would be an easy way to find out via that webpage ;-) 


Regards,
Michael