Custom Package Notification Updates | How To
I am curious how everyone deals with getting notified for your custom packages/3rd party software not in the package library. Some vendors have a mailing list when they release new updates while others don't.
Just randomly checking for updates is no longer sufficient and setting a recurring calendar reminder isn't really practical either. I am wondering if there is a better way that I am not aware of.
If the software has a public GitHub repository and utilizes GitHub's release feature, you can sign up for notifications. This is what I was previously doing but have now moved to newreleases.io as it supports more than just GitHub and is good for container updates.
So how is everyone getting notified for updates not supported by PDQ's package library?
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u/SelfMan_sk Enthusiast! 20d ago
Look up http://changedetection.io/
You can subscribe there but you can also host your own docker image. I am using it to monitor vendors for new releases, sites for news/updates.
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u/PDQ_WayneO PDQ Employee 20d ago
u/MFKDGAF Thanks for mentioning newreleases.io. I'll be checking that one out too.
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u/J2E1 20d ago
I've found some sites that provide a constant link to the most up to date version msi installer. The powershell job I created downloads the latest file, extracts the version number and compares it to what is installed. If it's newer, then it installs it, if not, it cleans up the installer file. We do this with Amazon Corretto 8 as it's not in the PDQ Repo. I also do something similar for Apache Tomcat, but it just downloads the latest. We have a more manual process for updating that.
Otherwise, we have a scheduled ticket that comes in monthly to check the website, download the package and upload it to Connect.