the problem is that not allways i will have the xserver and if i do could i run it from crontab?? i guess not. i could use wget to take it all, but only need tha packages i have installed. any other ideas? thanks. At 17:30 05/09/01 -0300, you wrote: >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by >mandrakesoft.mandrakesoft.com id PAA03133 > >Clovis Sena wrote: > > > > hi people, > > > >88 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 >2> 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. > > >222 >8 Update to rpm 4.0!!! > Here this is the default behaviour! > But I think you'll need to use MandrakeUpdate... > =o) > >-- >Leonardo T. de Carvalho > Ibiz Tecnologia >Frase aleatória: >" "Beauty is transitory." > "Beauty survives." > -- Spock and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown >" > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com ------------------------------------------------- Clovis Sena Itautec.Com Servicos S2uporte Tecnico Software/Hardware --------------- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fone : 0xx81-3421-1126 Fax : 0xx81-3421-4988 -------------------------------------------------
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