this post was submitted on 12 Jul 2023
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Is there a way to get notified, when an #ArchLinux package is updated?

Sometimes I'm eagerly awaiting an upgrade to a specific package. Is there a way to get a notification of some sort, once the update is available?

In this case I'm waiting for thunderbird and wine-nine.

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[–] faultyaddress@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Not sure if you could do this by polling repo with RSS reader with specific parameters. I don't know how but quick googling around that has been suggested previously.

[–] sandayle@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

I check every day with pacman -S thunderbird

[–] neotux@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

You could keep an eye on the PKGBUILDs. For Thunderbirds, for example, you could use the following in a RSS reader:

https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/packaging/packages/thunderbird/-/commits/main/PKGBUILD

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