On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:49 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 12:46, Bill Thomason wrote: > > Hi, > > > > We have several systems running Fedora Core. The systems were set up > > with the apt-get utility for Red Hat. > > > > I would like to have a process running that notifies me of updated > > packages at the apt-get repository when they become available to so I > > can assess whether or not it is necessary for us to install. > > > > I like staying current on packages in case the new version fixes bugs, > > more efficient, provides better security,... > > > > Does something exist? Has someone rolled their own? Or will I have to > > do this? > > > > I think apt-get has an equivalent command to: > yum list updates > or > yum check-update Yup - you can use --check-only option, eg: [root@chip ~]# apt-get --check-only dist-upgrade Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Calculating Upgrade... The following packages will be upgraded rhgb (0.14.1-1 => 0.15.1-1.FC3) 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 removed and 0 not upgraded. E: There are changes to be made [root@chip ~]# It returns a non-zero code if updates are available for script usage. - Panu - _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
