Has openSUSE considered RSS feed for TW updated packages? (saves resources)
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. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.
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
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