TLDR: This script now answers the question “Do some of my openSUSE packages have newer versions in other distros?” As a following on previous post, I added an useful feature in order to have more information about a package. Since I maintain some openSUSE packages, I want to be informed if they gets outdated and if other packagers have released newer versions. ...
being lazy, I made a small utility to check last pkgs update date on Open Build Service. You can find the project repository on my github, but it’s so simple I can paste also here. The usage is pretty simple: just run the command giving it a package name, and then it will tell you when it was last updated. With this information, you can decide/check if the package needs some work on! ...
I got bored of ‘waiting’ for an OpenQA openSUSE job to complete, so I wrote this quick and dirty script… For the same purpose there’s also the excellent and full-fledged openqa-mon, but I took the chance to learn something by implementing a simpler version myself. ...
Background: I work with one or more terminal command-line always opened and having to pick up my phone to generate an OTP breaks my flow; also it’s always nice to have an alternate source of multi-factor authentication if something bad happens, one day you could lose or break your trusty mobile device. Therefore I was looking for a way to login through Okta portals without a phone. You may argument that this defeats the whole meaning of MFA, but let’s say it’s only an hack for research and fun purpose … ...