diff --git a/content/technical/2018/06/using-feedbin-to-maintain-aur-packages.md b/content/technical/2018/06/using-feedbin-to-maintain-aur-packages.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbe0d89 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/technical/2018/06/using-feedbin-to-maintain-aur-packages.md @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +One of the many reasons that makes using Arch Linux a pleasure is the Arch User +Repository (AUR). The AUR allows users to contribute the scripts (`PKGBUILD`) +to build a package installable by `pacman`, the system package manager. The +benefit installing sortware this was, is that all fails are tracked, it's +easily uninstallable, dependencies can be expressed and installed when needed, +and you end up helping the community by making it easier for other to install +software. + +When I encounter some software that is not yet packaged in the main repos or +AUR I'll often create an AUR package for it. In doing so I become the +maintainer of that package and am responsible for keeping it up to date. At the +time of writing I currently maintain 12 packages. + +It would be tiresome to have to repeatedly visit the source repository of every +project to check for new releases. Fortunately there's a solution to this +problem that has been around for a long time: RSS RSS lets you subscribe to a +feed then your feed read checks for new entries and shows them. All you have to +do is check on your feed reader periodically. + +A perhaps little known fact is that there is an Atom feed for the releases of +every GitHub project. The URL is that of the release page with `.atom` +appended. E.g. https://github.com/wezm/titlecase/releases.atom + diff --git a/content/technical/2018/06/using-feedbin-to-maintain-aur-packages.yaml b/content/technical/2018/06/using-feedbin-to-maintain-aur-packages.yaml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8abcf2d --- /dev/null +++ b/content/technical/2018/06/using-feedbin-to-maintain-aur-packages.yaml @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +--- +title: Using Feedbin to Maintain AUR Packages +extra: TODO +kind: article +section: technical +created_at: 2018-06-02 08:10:00.000000000 +10:00 +keywords: +- arch +- linux +- rss +- feedbin +- aur +short_url: