livecheck behaviour

[John Patrick]

Josh, does that also cover the potential mirror not sync'ing fast enough
issue, or does livecheck always go to the master mirror? Or should
livecheck always go to the master mirror?


On 19 November 2013 13:10, Joshua Root <jmr at macports.org> wrote:

> On 2013-11-19 23:50 , Peter Danecek wrote:
> >
> > Hi all,
> > I am just experimenting a bit with livecheck, and wonder if the
> behaviour below is really the desired behaviour.
> >
> > --- snip ---
> > DEBUG: Port (livecheck) version is 0.8.5
> > DEBUG: Fetching https://pypi.python.org/packages/source/o/obspy/
> > DEBUG: The regex is ">obspy-(\d+\.\d+\.\d+)\.zip<"
> > DEBUG: The regex matched ">obspy-0.8.0.zip<", extracted "0.8.0"
> > DEBUG: The regex matched ">obspy-0.8.3.zip<", extracted "0.8.3"
> > DEBUG: The regex matched ">obspy-0.8.4.zip<", extracted "0.8.4"
> > py-obspy seems to have been updated (port version: 0.8.5, new version:
> 0.8.4)
> > --- snip ---
> >
> > I would argue 0.8.5 > 0.8.4 so ideally this situation would be
> recognised. Is there some way to influence the evaluation, e.g. to result
> "seems to be up to date" in such a case.
> >
> >
> > NOTE: In this case this actually is not really needed (it was only a
> test). But I am looking at some other situation. Where `updates` got into a
> different directory. So in that case a somewhat different behaviour would
> be helpful.
> >
> > It would also be interesting to check for the presence of some regex, in
> case it is not to judge that the port is up-to-date. Would this be possible
> somehow?
>
> This behaviour is intentional since not finding the current version
> means you need to fix your livecheck. The wording of the message could
> be different in that case but it should not say "seems to be up to date".
>
> - Josh
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