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[Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>]

not sure if you know this or not, but i think dufflebunk has a similiar
script, maybe you could look at it also...

On Sun, Apr 27, 2003 at 08:34:48PM -0700, Marc Greene wrote:
> I've noticed a lot of packages are getting behind, and also that it
> takes a good deal of work to keep up with maintaining current versions in
> the grimoire. In the effort to keep my own box current, I've come up with
> a script that speeds and simplifies the process of keeping a grimoire
> section in sync with new versions on the servers. My orginal intent was
> to have something fully automated that would return a list of any
> packages that had upgrades available, but I couldn't see quite how to do
> that. This is an interactive script that pulls enough info out of the
> DETAILS file to grep the directory listing for new potential new
> versions. Below is what it looks like when it's running, and I've
> attached a sample status file it creates for a section (section.status,
> in this case net), along with the script. It's not perfect, and I'm sure
> whoever uses it will be able to improve it. This script turns up a lot of
> new versions, and I don't have time to submit bug reports for all of
> them, so hopefully this will save the gurus a bit of time, or at least
> help keep things more up to date :)
> 
> Here is a sample of the output as it runs:
> 
> status - http://www.the-den.org/status
>   13. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.0.tar.gz
>   14. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.1.tar.gz
>   15. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.2.tar.gz
>   16. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.3.tar.gz
>   17. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.4.tar.gz
>   18. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.5.tar.gz
>   19. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.5a.tar.gz
>   20. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.6.1.tar.gz
>   21. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-1.6.tar.gz
>   22. http://www.the-den.org/status/status-current.tar.gz
> 
> Enter new version or 'Enter' for none (We have: status-1.5a.tar.gz):
> status-1.6.1.tar.gz
> 
> You still have to examine the listing to see if there are new versions,
> but it's a lot faster than 'gaze html' then hitting web sites. Anyway the
> rest should be pretty self exlpanatory from the script and output file
> (net.status).
> 
> Marc
> if [ $1 ] && [ -d /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/$1 ] ; then 
>    :
> else
>    echo "Usage: $0 SECTION"
>    echo "e.g. $0 utils"
>    exit
> fi
> [ $EDITOR ] || EDITOR=pico
> SECTION=$1
> >$SECTION.status
> . /etc/sorcery/config &>/dev/null
> find /var/lib/sorcery/codex/devel/$SECTION -name DETAILS >DETAILSlist
> echo -n "Edit list of spells to check? [y/N] "
> read ANS 
> if [ "$ANS" = "y" ] || [ "$ANS" = "Y" ] ; then
>    $EDITOR DETAILSlist
> fi
> for i in `cat DETAILSlist` ; do
>       . $i &>/dev/null ; . $i $>/dev/null
>       echo -n "$SPELL - "
>       if echo $SOURCE_URL |grep SOURCE &>/dev/null; then 
>          SERVER=`echo $SOURCE_URL |sed "s:\\$SOURCE::"`
>       else 
>          SERVER=`echo $SOURCE_URL |sed "s:/[^/]*$::"`
>       fi
>       echo "$SERVER"
>       EXT=`echo $SOURCE | sed "s/^.*[^A-Za-z0-9]//"`
>       SRC=`echo $SOURCE | tr -d '[0-9]' |cut -d "." -f 1`
>       if lynx -dump $SERVER >.tmplist ; then
>          if grep "$SRC-.*$EXT$" .tmplist |grep "^ *[0-9]"  ||
>           grep "$SRC.*$EXT$" .tmplist |grep "^ *[0-9]"  ||
>           grep "$SPELL.*$EXT$" .tmplist   |grep "^ *[0-9]"; then
>           rm .tmplist
>             echo
>           echo -n "Enter new version or 'Enter' for none (We have: 
> $SOURCE): "
>             read ANS
>              if [ $ANS ] ; then
>                  echo "NEW:       $SPELL - $ANS" >>$SECTION.status
>                echo
>              fi
>        else
>           rm .tmplist
>           echo "NOT FOUND: $SPELL - $SERVER" >>$SECTION.status
>           echo
>        fi
>       else
>          echo "NO ACCESS: $SPELL - $SERVER" >>$SECTION.status
>        echo
>       fi
> done
> echo "Done. The information is in $SECTION.status"

> NOT FOUND: gq - http://biot.com/gq/download
> NOT FOUND: nc - http://www.atstake.com/research/tools
> NEW:       agt - agt-1.08.tar.gz
> NEW:       mtr - mtr-0.53.tar.gz
> NEW:       dhcp - dhcp-3.0.1rc11.tar.gz
> NEW:       nast - nast-0.1.7.tar.gz
> NEW:       mrtg - 2.9.29.tar.gz
> NEW:       nmap - nmap-3.26.tar.bz2
> NOT FOUND: noip - http://www.no-ip.com/client/linux
> NEW:       nsat - nsat-1.5.tgz
> NEW:       yp-tools - yp-tools-2.8.tar.bz2
> NEW:       jnettop - jnettop-0.8.tar.gz
> NEW:       nfs-utils - nfs-utils-1.0.3.tar.gz
> NO ACCESS: dictd - ftp://ftp.dict.org/pub/dict
> NOT FOUND: grnet - http://grsecurity.net
> NEW:       lcrzo - lcrzo-4.17.0-src.tgz
> NOT FOUND: lrzsz - http://www.ohse.de/uwe/releases
> NEW:       zebra - zebra-0.93b.tar.gz
> NEW:       dnsmasq - dnsmasq-1.12.tar.gz
> NEW:       lcrzoex - lcrzoex-4.17.0-src.tgz
> NOT FOUND: gridentd - http://grsecurity.net
> NEW:       fwbuilder - fwbuilder-1.0.9.tar.gz
> NEW:       rrdtool - rrdtool-1.0.42.tar.gz
> NEW:       icmpchat - icmpchat-0.5.1.tar.gz
> NEW:       maradns - maradns-1.0.17.tar.bz2
> NEW:       etherape - etherape-0.9.0.tar.gz
> NO ACCESS: ddclient - http://burry.ca:4141/ddclient
> NOT FOUND: grsparse - http://grsecurity.net
> NOT FOUND: portsentry - http://www.psionic.com/downloads
> NOT FOUND: minicom - http://www.netsonic.fi/~walker
> NOT FOUND: chrony - http://www.netsonic.fi/~walker
> NEW:       stunnel - stunnel-4.04.tar.gz
> NEW:       dhcpcd - dhcpcd-1.3.22-pl4.tar.gz
> NOT FOUND: ettercap - http://ettercap.sourceforge.net/download
> NEW:       netdude - netdude-0.3.3.tar.gz
> NEW:       gspoof - gspoof-2.1.1.tar.gz
> NEW:       shorewall - shorewall-1.4.2.tgz
> NEW:       net-snmp - net-snmp-5.0.8.tar.gz
> NEW:       status - status-1.6.1.tar.gz
> NOT FOUND: netwatch - http://www.slctech.org/~mackay
> NEW:       oidentd - oidentd-2.0.6.tar.gz
> NOT FOUND: xprobe - http://www.sys-security.com/archive/tools/X
> NOT FOUND: arpoison - http://web.syr.edu/~sabuer/arpoison
> NEW:       firestarter - firestarter-0.9.1-2.tar.gz
> NOT FOUND: eciadsl-usermode - http://eciadsl.flashtux.org
> NOT FOUND: yatunnel - http://irccrew.org/~cras
> NEW:       xtraceroute - xtraceroute-0.9.1.tar.gz
> NOT FOUND: eciadsl-synch - http://eciadsl.flashtux.org

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