Have you written such scripts? Are they available?
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John Summerfield writes:
> >
> > > > How should I get the latest rawhide without downloading the whole thing
> > > > and without leaving the old files? I tried using rsync, but
> > > > ftp.redhat.com doesn't seem to accept the connections. wget leaves all
> > > > the old files.
> > > >
> > > > Is there a program that comes with RedHat 6.1 that I could use?
> >
> > John Summerfield wrote:
> > > If you want the whole shebang, either get the iso image (I think there's
> > > one someplace) or train wget to get it.
> > >
> > > If you want to do more intelligent filtering that wget provides, speak to
> > > me about my pocket version which allows an external script/program decide
> > > on each file; useful if you only want to get rpms that match those you
> > > actually use.
> >
> > I don't want to get RedHat 6.1, I already have the iso image.
> > What I want to do is get all the new files in
> > ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386 without keeping all the old files
> > on my disk, and without downloading the files I already have.
> > "rsync -a --delete ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/rawhide/i386/" would do what
> > I wanted if redhat accepted conections for rsync
> >
>
> wget can get the new files; a bit of creative scripting with bash, rpm &
> awk can identify and remove obsoleted (by newer versions) packages & those
> packages completely removed.
>
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> John Summerfield
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