>
> > > 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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