sheepduke/pacnews

archlinux news reader

pacnews

pacnews is a archlinux news reader, like 'eselect news' from Gentoo system.

Description

Upgrading in archlinux can be dangerous if some important news is missed. Thus this software is created to fetch and read news from archlinux website.

Every time pacnews synchronizes with archlinux server, it downloads latest news to local directory. It will not synchronize automatically.

This software is implemented in Common Lisp, tested on SBCL.

Usage

pacnews <ACTION> [OPTION]

Actions

sync

Synchronize with archlinux server and download all the latest news. Local news file is default to $HOME/.pacnews/news. This file is changed only after all the news is fetched.

Please note that same news will not be downloaded twice.

list [--all]

List local news according to given option. By default, only unread news is listed. If --all is provided, all the news is listed.

read [--all | N]

Print the content of corresponding news and mark it as read. By default, only unread news is listed. If a number N is provided, news with index N will be processed. If --all is given, all the news is listed and marked.

unread [--all | N]

Mark news as unread. By default, only read news is marked. If a number N is given, news with index N will be processed. If --all is provided, all the news is marked.

help

Print help message.

version

Print version information.