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euscan-ng is a fork of Bernard Cafarelli's euscan: https://github.com/voyageur/euscan
which is a fork of Corentin Chary's euscan: https://github.com/iksaif/euscan
euscan is available in portage as a dev package (app-portage/euscan-9999).
This tool allows to check if a given package/ebuild has new upstream versions
or not. It will use different heuristic to scan upstream and grab new versions
and related urls.
Right now euscan-ng and (legacy) euscan cannot be installed (system-wide) on the same system.
euscan-ng is available in src_prepare overlay as a dev package (app-portage/euscan-ng-9999).
This tool allows to check if a given package has new upstream versions or not.
It will use different heuristic to scan upstream and grab new versions and related urls.
This tool was designed to mimic debian's uscan, but there is a major
difference between the two: uscan uses a specific "watch" file that describes
how it should scan packages, while euscan uses only what can already be found
how it should scan packages, while euscan-ng uses only what can already be found
in ebuilds. Of course, we could later add some informations in metadata.xml
to help euscan do its job more efficiently.
to help euscan-ng do its job more efficiently.
euscan heuristics are described in the "How does-it works ?" section.
euscan-ng heuristics are described in the "How does-it works?" section.
Examples
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