How can i simply see, what RPMS need an update?

[qeldroma]

I use several remote RPM-sites as sources in URPMI.

Because they are changing often, i want to see in a type of list, which of my installed RPMs needs/can be updated.

 

Ex: Installed is SUPERKARAMBA v0.17

 

If i am trying "urpmi superkaramba" and the actual version is 0.24, urpmi doesn't recognize this. I have manually to "urpme" it, before i can "urpmi"ze it.

 

Perfect would be a script or short-step-way to do a "update world".

 

Any ideas?

[tyme]

you could always open up software manager (the installer) from MCC, check the box for all available packages (or does it say all repositories? it's the last one) and then on the drop-down box in that line select by update availability.

[scoopy]

That's the way I have been checking. And by selected one of the updates that are available, it also tells me what version is installed among other tidbits.

[qeldroma]

Thx, the hint with the mcc dropdown was it.

It's bad translated in german, so you don't know, that you'll find it there....

[aru]

In another order of things, this is what I've been using to update my system (home made scripts):

 

[WARNING]

BIZZARRE SCRIPTING BELOW

[/WARNING]

 

#! /bin/bash

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# PROGRAM:  ~/bin/updatemdk

# VERSION:  $Id: updatemdk,v 1.1 2003/05/09 13:32:44 aru devel aru $  

# PURPOSE:  Daily retrieving of new updated rpm-packages --cron--.

# DATE:     7-03-2003

# AUTHOR:   aru@mandrakeusers.org - Copyright (C) 1990-2003 ChitiPC Corp.

#

# FILES:    /home/aru/bin/rpmmirrors   # listing generator

#           /home/aru/etc/rpmmirrorsrc # Config file

#           /home/aru/var/rpms/UPDATES_82.listing # Updates rpm listing

#

# LICENSE:  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 

#           modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 

#           published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, 

#           or (at your option) any later version.

#

# NOTES:   <TODO>

#

# HISTORY:

# 01-07-2003   Mandrake 9.1(no version ctrl, solo para neo)

# 09-04-2003   Cambiamos a Mdk8.2, pq mdksecure ha dejado de soportar la 8.1

# 07-03-2003   First version; script "updatemdk" release

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------



PROGRAM=${0##*/} 

VER="1.1" # RCS version



# Script Vars ----------------------------------------------------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

listing=/home/aru/var/rpms/UPDATES_91.listing

old_listing=${listing}.old

config=/home/aru/etc/rpmmirrorsrc

dwldir=/home/aru/var/rpms/

mirrorListing=/home/aru/bin/rpmmirrors  # listing generator script.



# Actualizar el kernel??

: ${updatemdk_kernel:=0} # 0 = no; 1 = si



# Gestión automática de la conexión a internet:

autoconexion=/home/aru/lib/autoconexion.sh



# Functions ------------------------------------------------------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

error () {

   # -> error "description"

   echo -e "${@:-$(usage)}" >&2

   exit 1

}



# Main -----------------------------------------------------------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

if [[ -f ${listing} && -f ${config} ]]; then

   . ${config} && cd ${dwldir}

   cp ${listing} ${old_listing} # para comparar despues

else

   error "${PROGRAM}: Config files not found; exiting." 

fi



# run ${mirrorListing} to get the current rpm listing 

echo "${PROGRAM}: Retrieving remote rpm listing... might trigger a while"

${mirrorListing} 1> /dev/null || error "Error: Couldn't retrieve remote listing."



# checking updates:

updates="$(diff ${listing} ${old_listing} | sed -n '/^</ {s|^< ||p;}' | col -b)"

rm ${old_listing}



# downloading updates if any:

if [ "${updates}" != "" ]; then

   echo "New updates for installed packages available."

   l_listing="$(rpm -qa)" # local rpm list.

   for package in ${updates}; do

       if echo "${l_listing}" | egrep -q "^${package%%-[0-9]*}-[0-9]"; then

           # Provisional, para evitar bajar *actualizaciones* ya instaladas:

           installed_package=$(echo "${l_listing}" | egrep "^${package%%-[0-9]*}-[0-9]"| col -b)

           if [ "${installed_package}" != "${package%.*.*}" ]; then

           # fin provisional

           #if [ "${package%%-[0-9]*}" != "kernel" ]; then

           #if [ "${updatemdk_kernel}" == "0" ]; then     

           #Bajar el kernel

           #fi

               echo -n "Downloading ${package} ... "

               /usr/bin/wget -qc $(echo "${UPDATES_91}/${package}") && echo "done" || echo "failed"

        fi #;fi # provisional

       fi

   done

   echo "Packages saved on: ${dwldir}"

   else

       echo "Nothing interesting today. Quiting."

fi



exit 0;

 

#! /bin/bash

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# PROGRAM:  ~/bin/rpmmirrors

# VERSION:  $Id: rpmmirrors,v 1.1 2003/05/09 13:40:18 aru devel aru $  

# PURPOSE:  Gets and archives the rpm listings from selected mirrors.

# DATE:     05-01-2003

# AUTHOR:   aru@mandrakeusers.org - Copyright (C) 1990-2003 ChitiPC Corp.

#

# USAGE:    rpmmirrors [-v] [-h]

#    

# 	 Options:

#    -v  Shows version and exits.

#    -h  Shows this help.

#

# FILES:    ~/etc/rpmmirrorsrc 	 #--- Config file.

# 	 ~/var/rpms/*    #--- Listings archive directory.

#

# LICENSE:  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or 

# 	 modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as 

#    published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, 

#    or (at your option) any later version.

#

# NOTES:   <TODO>

#

# HISTORY:

# 07-02-2003	Control de conexión/desconexión a internet.

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------



PROGRAM=${0##*/} 

VER="1.1"



# Script Vars ----------------------------------------------------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------



: ${config:="/home/aru/etc/rpmmirrorsrc"}

: ${list_dir:="/home/aru/var/rpms/"}

: ${no_es_un_rpm:="no_es_nada_*"}



CWD="${list_dir}"



# Functions ------------------------------------------------------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

usage () {

   # Shows the program usage striped from the script-head comments.

   sed -n "

 /^# PURPOSE:  / {s/// p;}

 /^# USAGE/,/^#$/ {s/ USAGE:  /Usage:/; s/^[#	]{1,4}// p;}

 " ${0}

}



error () {

   # -> error "description"

   echo -e ${@:-$(usage)} >&2

   exit 1

}



showVer () { echo "$PROGRAM, ver: $VER"; }



# Main -----------------------------------------------------------------------

# ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

# silenciar la salida standard en cron

if [ ! -t ]; then

 exec >&1 /dev/null 

fi



showVer 

cd $CWD



# command line default options:

while getopts ":vh" option; do

   case ${option} in

 v) exit 0;; # Shows the version number

 h) usage && exit 0;; # help.

 *) error;;

   esac

done



# Cargamos y comprobamos la configuración

if [ -r ${config} ]; 

then

. ${config}

elif [ "${MIRRORS}" != "" ]; 

then

: # ${MIRRORS[@]} se carga desde el fich de configuración.

else

error "ERROR: ${config} no se pudo leer, o contiene parámetros erroneos."

fi



# Bajamos y procesamos los listados de rpms

: ${list:=".listing"} # listado obtenido de wget (no cambiar).



echo -e "nPaciencia, puede tardar unos minutos en acabarn"



for mirror in ${MIRRORS[@]}; do

eval ftp_mirror="$$mirror"

echo -n "Guardando listado de ${ftp_mirror} " 

wget -qc --dont-remove-listing "${ftp_mirror}/${no_es_un_rpm}"

 

if [ -f ${list} ]; then

    awk '{print $NF}' ${list} > ${mirror}${list} &&

 rm ${list}

 echo " ... en ${mirror}${list}"

   fi

done



exit 0;

 

... and the config file:

 

# ~/etc/rpmmirrorsrc

# Define fuentes de rpms para instalar.

# Puede ser usado por distintos scripts. No borrar.



# FTP servers:

SE_MIRROR="ftp.sunet.se/pub/Linux/distributions"

FR_MIRROR="ftp.lip6.fr/pub/linux/distributions"

ES_MIRROR="ftp.rediris.es/mirror"

FULL_DISTRO="ftp://ftp.esat.net/pub/linux/mandrake-old/"



# Listado de Mirrors fuente de rpms (binaries and source):

: ${ROOT:="ftp://${ES_MIRROR}"}



COOKER="${ROOT}/mandrake-devel/cooker/cooker/Mandrake/RPMS"

CURRENT="${ROOT}/mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/RPMS"

MIRROR_81="${FULL_DISTRO}/8.1/i586/Mandrake/RPMS"

MIRROR_82="${FULL_DISTRO}/8.2/i586/Mandrake/RPMS"

MIRROR_90="${FULL_DISTRO}/9.0/i586/Mandrake/RPMS"

MIRROR_91="${CURRENT}"

UPDATES_81="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS"

UPDATES_82="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/8.2/RPMS"

UPDATES_90="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/9.0/RPMS"

UPDATES_91="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/9.1/RPMS"



sCOOKER="${ROOT}/mandrake-devel/cooker/SRPMS"

sCURRENT="${ROOT}/mandrake/current/i586/Mandrake/SRPMS"

sMIRROR_81="${FULL_DISTRO}/8.1/i586/Mandrake/SRPMS"

sMIRROR_82="${FULL_DISTRO}/8.2/i586/Mandrake/SRPMS"

sMIRROR_90="${FULL_DISTRO}/9.0/i586/Mandrake/SRPMS"

sMIRROR_91="${sCURRENT}"

sUPDATES_81="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/8.1/SRPMS"

sUPDATES_82="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/8.2/SRPMS"

sUPDATES_90="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/9.0/SRPMS"

sUPDATES_91="${ROOT}/mandrake/updates/9.1/SRPMS"



# Misc:

PLF="ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/cooker/i586/" 

CONTRIB="${ROOT}/mandrake-devel/contrib/i586/" 



sPLF="ftp://ftp.easynet.fr/plf/src/"

sCONTRIB="${ROOT}/mandrake-devel/contrib/SRPMS/"



# Variables de configuración para ~/bin/rpmmirrors

MIRRORS=("COOKER" "sCOOKER" "UPDATES_91" "sUPDATES_91" "CURRENT" "sCURRENT")

 

... I post this just in case some ill mind will find it interesting :D

[phazeman]

The most easyest way is to do the next:

To check if there are updaed rpms:

# urpmq -r --list --auto-select

 

Toc install the updated rpms:

# urpmi --auto-select

 

If you wish to work with only specific media (like updates) you should add the next flag to that command:

--media updates

 

Works really nice for me.

 

Phazeman