At 03:57 PM 09/05/2001 -0300, you wrote: >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 Try the following: rpm --queryformat '%{NAME}\n' -qa which will give you only the package name, one line per name. As far as getting the files, you could do an ncftpget -R ftp://ftp.planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS/, which would get all files, get a listing of the files and compare them against what you have installed. Since I've never automated the process, I'm just throwing out ideas here. Leonardo - he doesn't need to update to 4.x, since Mandrake 8.0 already uses rpm 4.x . Michael
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