I should have mentioned that I am looking for a solution that I can even run from my debian box (i.e no yum)

--- On Thu, 12/10/09, john blair <mailtome200420032002@yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: john blair <mailtome200420032002@yahoo.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] find latest version of rpms from a mirror
> To: centos@centos.org
> Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009, 12:20 PM
> 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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From: john blair <mailtome200420032002@yahoo.com>
> 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?

Example:

URL='http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/'
PKG=...
links -dump $URL | grep "$URL$PKG-[0-9]" | cut -f2 -d' '

Replace with 'cut -d'/' -f9' if you don't want the full URL...

JD



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