[CentOS] How Do I Get Info About New RPMs in Major REPOs
Kenneth Burgener
kenneth at mail1.ttak.org
Sun Jul 13 15:09:38 UTC 2008
On 7/13/2008 8:59 AM, John Thomas wrote:
> I would like to know about new software (rpms) with a general
> description as they become available in the major repos.
>
> Currently, I run "yum --enablerepo=* list recent" in cron.daily, but it
> does not provide a description.
The following will cycle through the recently added packages, and then
output the description for each package. You could then have this
mailed to you, or what ever you do with your cron job.
yum -q list recent | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | grep -v "Recently" \
| xargs -L 1 yum -q info
Kenneth
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