Markus Gaugusch wrote:
The tool should read a list of all current rpm's from a website (maybe two websites: security important and general updates). Of course version numbers must be given!) Then it compares the version numbers from the homepage with the RPM-Database. The output should be a list of download urls with the missing (newer) packages. You could also give a parameter like "--source ftp://gd.tuwien.ac.at:2100/suse/i386" giving the primary download source (so ftp.suse.com doesn't get overloaded).
Try autorpm, that will do the job and can also not just mention the newer packages but automatically download and install them. Look at http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/ByName.html for instance. cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner mailto:fst@informatik.uni-kiel.de Lehrstuhl f. Programmiersprachen mailto:fsteiner@web.de CAU Kiel, Olshausenstraße 40 Phone: +49 431 880-7265, Fax: -7613 D-24098 Kiel, Germany http://www.informatik.uni-kiel.de/~fst/