[CentOS] find latest version of rpms from a mirror

Thu Dec 10 06:52:24 UTC 2009
John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com>

john blair wrote:
> I want to write a script to find the latest version of rpm of a given package available from a mirror for eg: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/
> Is there any existing script that does this? Or can someone give me a general idea on how to go about this?
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