Checksum failure with ncbi-tools, then missing getfeat.

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 22, 2008, at 10:28, Matt Scilipoti wrote:

>> Regarding the versioning, when the authors of ncbi_tools update their
>> package, the replace the current tarball on their ftp site with the
>> new one and there is no version number in the filename or path, so  
>> the
>> only (easiest?) way to know that its updated is to download it and
>> checksum it.  If I was a good port maintainer I would check my ports
>> periodically and submit updates before anyone else, like you,
>> discovers that they're broken :)
>
> I would be happy to help you create an automatic notifier.  I have a
> few tools that notify me when http pages change.  Unfortunately, I
> don't have anything for ftp pages and I don't see a page at ncbi that
> will be updated when a new ncbi.tar.gz is created.  Do you know of an
> http page?  If not, I'm sure I can create something.

MacPorts already includes a feature called livecheck, which  
maintainers are encouraged to set up and use in order to discover  
when ports they maintain need to be updated.