[Nix-dev] Re: Auto package update script v3

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Tobias Hunger <tobias.hunger at gmx.de> writes:

> On Wednesday February 16 2011 22:34:54 Ludovic Courtès wrote:
>> What do the watch files look like?
>
> In the simplest case:
> version=3
> ftp://some.server.com/path/filename-(.*)\.tar\.bz2

OK.  How does it determine whether a file corresponds to a newer
version?

What about schemes like ftp://foo.bar/package/vX.Y/package-X.Y.Z.tar.gz?
(Gnupdate doesn’t support it yet.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.