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check_release.pl - monitor releases of manually installed software


A simple script to monitor manually installed software for new upstream releases. Can be used as monitoring plugin with Icinga/Nagios/...


It takes a local changelog file and a remote upstream release page as input, guesses the highest version from both and compares them.


Perl dependencies


    

  • Dpkg::Version (Debian package libdpkg-perl)
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  • HTTP::Request (Debian package libhttp-message-perl)
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  • LWP::UserAgent (Debian package libwww-perl)
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Usage examples:


$ check_release.pl --name=roundcube --changelog=/var/www/roundcube/CHANGELOG --url='https://github.com/roundcube/roundcubemail/releases' --regex='roundcubemail/releases/tag/([^v]__VER__)'


$ check_release.pl --name=linux --changelog=/usr/src/linux/ChangeLog --url='https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/' --regex='linux-(__VER__)\.tar'


$ check_release.pl --name=app --changelog=/usr/local/app/CHANGELOG --url='http://sourceforge.net/projects/app/files/app/' --regex='app/files/app/([^v]__VER__)/'


License


GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later