| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| ck4up is a small command-line utility, writen in ruby, to watch http and ftp |
| sites for updates. ck4up scans through a configuration file, fetches the |
| listed URLs from the web, computes the md5sum of the page, and compares the |
| value with one stored in a gdbm database. If both differ a message will be |
| written to the standard output. |
| |
| To improve performance, ck4up is multi-threaded. Regular expressions can be |
| applied to each page in the event that ck4up produces repetitive diff |
| messages. For example, if daily snapshots and a web counter are on the same |
| page. To simplify maintenance of the configuration file, a kind of |
| macro-expansion can be used. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
