hi people,

i am making some crontab script to try automatize some updates.  I wish to 
check at some intervals  if there is some updates for the packages i have 
installed, so i try

path$>for a in 'rpm -qa' do
path$>echo "Getting package $a...please wait."
path$>wget ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS/$a

for initial testing, but found some little problems.

firist, the rpm -qa output is the complete name of package, eg 
vim-0.6-2.3-mdk.etc.rpm  and not only the name  "vim" as i need.  I also 
try using the %{NAME} flag but with worse results.

note: as seen above wget will try the exact file name and never would find 
some updates. The idea is to make wget search for some thing like $a*  ( 
example: vim* ).

does somebody knows the way i could use rpm to output only the package names??

tia,

Clovis.


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