Re: Using rpmfind to find rpm updates

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From: Daniel Veillard (Daniel.Veillard@imag.fr)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 05:02:09 EDT

On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 02:55:59PM +1000, John Newbigin wrote:
>
> I have lots of RedHat 6.2 boxes and I am looking at a way to use rpmfind
> as a replacement for up2date. Basically I want rpmfind to tell me about
> the updates for RH6.2. I have played with the config file for ages but
> I keep getting results for redhat 5.2 or 6.1, never 6.2 updates.
>
> I looked at the RDF data and it seems that there is no distribution
> version number which could be the source of the problem but surely there
> must be a way to identify the exact set of RPM's that you want to query.
>
> Does anyone know how to do this?

  You can try the --autoupgrade option
  http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/rpmfind.html#Autoupgrad

  sorry not much time to elaborate now,

Daniel 

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