On 12-14-2024 03:03PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
All, Devs,
For Tumbleweed has openSUSE considered setting up an RSS feed for listing updated packages for each of the repos? (may work for Leap too). Arch provides a feed and it is very convenient, e.g. https:// archlinux.org/feeds/
The benefit is users don't have to load the mirrors doing repo refreshes to find out what updates are waiting - they are simply listed in the RSS feed. There could be a feed per-repo and users could simply subscribe to the ones they have added.
I don't know how much compute resource and bandwidth it would save, but over all user refreshes to check updates, I suspect it is a substantial amount. Serving the RSS feed would take a trivial amount by comparison.
Just a stray thought that I thought I would pass on in case anybody wants to look into this.
I have 4 feeds for Arch I monitor:
- Recent Packages: - core-testing - extra-testing - AUR packages
I only need to refresh and update when needed packages are ready. That's kind of nice.
I have not used RSS feeds before, I would be interested to try something like this out if it develops into a thing. -Thanks