NAME

rhupdate - Check for updates to RedHat RPMs

SYNOPSIS

rhupdate [ pattern ] [ --download [dir] | --list ] [ --options ]

DESCRIPTION

Checks for updates for installed RPMS on RedHat's updates site.

No, I'm not an RPM Fan. I don't like RPMs, I like building things myself. I use RedHat, and RedHat is easier to deal with (as an OS) when you use the RPMs the RedHat puts-out. I'm not at all interested in supplying an RPM version of rhupdate.

Requires Net::FTP and Pod::Usage Perl modules to be installed. On some versions of RedHat you will need to update File::Spec before Pod::Usage will install. (Even using CPAN.) See man CPAN for information on installing Perl modules.

NOTE: since version strings aren't simple numerics, I do my best to check them, but use your own judgement.

Install updates at your own risk.

See http://www.redhat.com/support/docs/howto/kernel-upgrade/kernel-upgrade.html for information on installing the kernel-* packages. Failure to install the Linux Kernel properly will result in a non-bootable machine. Use --exclude kernel to skip notification and download of Kernel packages.

INSTALL

(see INSTALL file)

http://www.jjminer.org/rhupdate/INSTALL

1)  Run "configure"
    
    $ ./configure

    Alternate installation prefixes can be specified with --prefix 
    (default: /usr/local):

    $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/gnu

    Other options are available from configure, run configure --help for more
    information.  (Although, only the directory options are applicable.)

2)  Install (you must be able to write to the installation directories, usually
    /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/man/man8)

    $ make install

OPTIONS

pattern
A pattern that the updates should match. (Shortcut for ``--include pattern''.)

--absolute
The path given in --dir is the absolute path, no attempt should be made to change in to the correct machine-type.

--add pattern
A pattern for a package to add, even if it is not installed or already exists on the system (and doesn't need to be updated.) Can be specified more than once to add more than one package.

--all
List or Download all updates that are available on the server, not just those that are installed on the local machine (and different from the local version.) Different from just mirroring the updates directory because it downloads only the correct architecture.

--arch arch
Default architecture (default: i386).

--dir directory
Root directory of the updates.redhat.com mirror.

--download [dir]
Download updated RPMs to the named directory or the current directory.

--exclude pattern
Pattern for packages to exclude. NOTE Exclude takes precedence over include. --exclude can be specified more than once to exclude multiple packages.

--hash [bytes]
Print hash marks as the file is downloaded. One hash mark for every specified number of bytes (128000 default).

--include pattern
Pattern for packages to include. NOTE Exclude takes precedence over include. --include can be specified more than once to include multiple packages.

--list
List the available updates.

--locale locale
Set the locale to 'locale', if you want to force the issue or if your system doesn't have 'locale.'

--passive
Get updates in passive mode.

--passwd passwd
Password to log in with (default: $USER@$HOST).

--retry [num]
Retry connecting to the FTP server num times (or infinitely if num is not specified) if it fails.

--rhversion [version]
RedHat version, in case your /etc/redhat-release is wrong (or for whatever reason you want to force the issue.)

--server server
Server to check for updates on.

--port port
Port to connect to the FTP server on. (default: 21)

--timeout timeout
Change the timeout for the FTP Client (if Net::FTP consistently times-out.)

--user user
Username to log in as (default: anonymous).

DOWNLOAD

http://www.jjminer.org/rhupdate

Stable
rhupdate-1.9.tar.gz - Wed Jan 8 15:05:56 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.8.tar.gz - Wed Oct 31 17:15:32 CST 2001
rhupdate-1.7.tar.gz - Sat May 19 15:06:14 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6.tar.gz - Thu Apr 26 11:46:15 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.5.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.4.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.3.tar.gz
Beta
rhupdate-1.10-beta-1.102.tar.gz - Mon Jun 9 10:33:06 CDT 2003
rhupdate-1.10-beta-1.101.tar.gz - Tue Mar 18 16:54:40 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.10-beta-1.100.tar.gz - Wed Jan 8 15:08:35 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.98.tar.gz - Tue Jan 7 19:41:59 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.97.tar.gz - Tue Jan 7 11:16:03 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.96.tar.gz - Tue Jan 7 11:15:17 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.95.tar.gz - Tue Jan 7 11:07:50 CST 2003
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.93.tar.gz - Thu Dec 19 19:20:53 CST 2002
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.92.tar.gz - Thu Dec 19 19:08:19 CST 2002
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.91.tar.gz - Thu Dec 19 16:40:19 CST 2002
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.90.tar.gz - Thu Dec 19 15:19:51 CST 2002
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.89.tar.gz - Thu Dec 19 14:55:52 CST 2002
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.88.tar.gz - Tue Feb 12 17:27:18 CST 2002
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.87.tar.gz - Fri Nov 30 17:40:11 CST 2001
rhupdate-1.9-beta-1.86.tar.gz - Mon Nov 12 17:52:02 CST 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.83.tar.gz - Wed Oct 31 10:12:02 CST 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.82.tar.gz - Mon Oct 29 17:05:31 CST 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.81.tar.gz - Sun Oct 28 11:51:18 CST 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.80.tar.gz - Fri Oct 26 17:56:45 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.79.tar.gz - Fri Oct 26 17:03:10 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.78.tar.gz - Wed Oct 24 22:03:06 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.77.tar.gz - Tue Oct 23 23:25:21 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.76.tar.gz - Tue Oct 23 23:19:15 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.74.tar.gz - Tue May 29 17:44:28 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.8-beta-1.73.tar.gz - Tue May 22 11:30:10 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.7-beta-1.70.tar.gz - Fri May 4 00:23:48 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.7-beta-1.68.tar.gz - Sun Apr 29 21:35:22 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.7-beta-1.67.tar.gz - Sat Apr 28 13:56:08 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.7-beta-1.66.tar.gz - Fri Apr 27 21:29:08 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.63.tar.gz - Thu Apr 26 11:42:03 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.62.tar.gz - Tue Apr 24 11:02:01 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.61.tar.gz - Mon Apr 16 17:55:38 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.60.tar.gz - Mon Apr 16 17:48:47 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.59.tar.gz - Fri Apr 13 11:39:42 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.58.tar.gz - Thu Apr 12 23:59:12 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.6-beta-1.55.tar.gz - Mon Apr 9 18:26:41 CDT 2001
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.52.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.51.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.50.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.49.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.48.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.47.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.45.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.44.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.43.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.42.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.37.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.36.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.35.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.34.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.33.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.32.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.31.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.30.tar.gz
rhupdate-1.5-beta-1.28.tar.gz

FAQ

I've got an RPM version (or .spec file, whatever that is) of rhupdate...
No, I'm not interested in it. Please don't send it to me. You can package up rhupdate and redistribute it all you want, but I'm not interested.

It just says ``Cannot change to :''
RedHat's FTP servers don't deny anonymous login when the limit is reached, instead they return a ``Login incorrect'' after the password (in this case the email address) is entered. Net::FTP doesn't recognize that the anonymous login failed (I'm not an FTP expert, so I don't know whose fault this is.) The login appears to succeed, and you get this error when it tries to change directories.

If you upgrade to the latest beta, the error message is fixed, and when you do --retry it will properly retry on this error.

How do I install Net::FTP or Pod::Usage?
Well, there are any number of ways. There are probably RPM versions of these packages out there, but the only thing I handle with RPM are the RedHat updates (and hence this program.)

The way I prefer to do it comes right off the CPAN manpage (try man CPAN):

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

(answer all the questions to the best of your knowledge), and type install Net::FTP (Or Pod::Usage, or any other Perl module you want.)

How do I enter a password with special characters?
This isn't an rhupdate problem, your shell is attempting to interpret meta-characters in your password. Putting the password inside single-quotes (') may help, but there may be some other things you need to do. (if you use a csh-based shell, you will need to escape '!' with a '\', even inside single-quotes.)

Can you include an install option?
No. I do not believe that it is appropriate to automatically install updates. You need to evaluate the updates the rhupdate downloads to make sure that they are appropriate to install. I don't trust my own software any more than I trust somebody else's.

I get an error when trying to (include|exclude|add) libstdc++
--include, --exclude, and --add take a Regular Expression as their argument, so special characters for Perl Regular Expressions need to be escaped.

For example:

    $ rhupdate --list --include libstdc++
    Argument to --include "libstdc++" is not a valid regular expression.
    Please try again.
    $ rhupdate --list --include 'libstdc\+\+'
    Listing Updates..
    No updates available.

I am considering changing this behavior for the 2.0 release.

CHANGELOG

(See ChangeLog file)

http://www.jjminer.org/rhupdate/ChangeLog

2003-06-09 10:26  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.102): 
        Added a --port option to specify the port that the FTP server is
        running on.  Thanks to James Bromberger 
        for the patch.
    
2003-03-18 16:50  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.101): 
        If the --dir parameter is given as a relative path, it is relative to
        the home directory of the user who logged in.
        Bug spotted by Kevin Kettner 
    
2003-01-08 15:07  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.100): 
        Bumping version to 1.10 beta (maybe this will become 2.0 beta??)
    
2003-01-08 15:04  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.99, VERSION_1_9): 
        Bumping version to 1.9
    
2003-01-07 19:38  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.98): 
        Fixed a typo in the docs
    
2003-01-07 11:15  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.97): 
        Fixing a bug in said POD.
    
2003-01-07 11:14  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.96): 
        Added a FAQ about include/exclude/add regexes.
    
2003-01-07 11:05  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.95): 
        Tweaking the regex checks.
    
2003-01-07 10:23  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.94): 
        Reverting back to the documented behavior of --include/exclude/add.
        Added a test to make sure that the regexes are valid.
    
2002-12-19 19:20  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.93): 
        Don't try to use undefined variables, again.
    
2002-12-19 19:06  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.92): 
        Added a FAQ option about adding an install option.
    
2002-12-19 16:23  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.91): 
        Making the server version index only look in the applicable
        directories.  Fixes the problem where an incorrect version would be
        downloaded because there was an upgrade for a foreign architecture.
            Reported by Bob Plankers 
            and Jonas Pasche 
    
2002-12-19 15:17  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.90): 
        Oops, don't try to regex things that aren't defined.
    
2002-12-19 14:52  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.89): 
        Fixed the include/exclude regex bug.
            Reported by Bob Plankers 
    
2002-02-12 17:21  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.88): 
        Correcting a counting error when there were updates for other
        architectures.
            Pointed out by Bob Plankers 
            and Jonas Pasche 
    
2001-11-30 17:35  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.87): 
        Handling the condition where there is more than one RPM for a specific
        package.
            Pointed out by Steve Tanner 
    
2001-11-12 17:51  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.86): 
        Added some comments about My love of RPMs.
    
2001-10-31 17:18  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.85): 
        Bumping version up to 1.9 beta.
    
2001-10-31 17:11  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.84, VERSION_1_8):
        Bumping to version 1.8 release.
    
2001-10-31 10:10  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.83): 
        Fixed a bug in resuming a failed download discovered by
        Ivan Borissov Ganev 
    
2001-10-29 17:03  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.82): 
        Added a --timeout option to specify the FTP timeout.
    
2001-10-28 11:48  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.81): 
        Oops, checking to see if $add is defined before using it is a good thing..
    
2001-10-26 17:55  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.80): 
        Finally straightened out the add code, and made it work again.
    
2001-10-26 17:01  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.79): 
        Fixed a bug that caused errors when the powertools update directory was
        missing (as it is in the RH7.2 updates.)
    
2001-10-24 22:02  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.78): 
        Ooops, fixed a bug in the adding code.
    
2001-10-24 11:10  miner

    * Makefile.in (1.2): 
        Added targets to create the destination directories if they don't exist.
    
2001-10-23 23:24  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.77): 
        Further fixing of typos in the --add documentation.  doh.
    
2001-10-23 23:11  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.76): 
        Updated the documentation for --add
    
2001-10-23 23:10  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.75): 
        Added a --add package function to add a specific package.
    
2001-05-29 17:42  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.74): 
        Fixing some documentation errors.
            Pointed out by Paul Willams 
    
2001-05-22 11:29  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.73): 
        Bumping version to 1.8 beta.
    
2001-05-22 11:26  miner

    * configure.in (1.6), rhupdate.pl (1.72): 
        Code to have configure set the locale to 'en' if locale cannot be found,
        also added a --locale option to force the locale, and a default for the
        locale to 'en' if for some reason locale doesn't have the standard output.
        (Suggested by  Troy Engel )
        Fixed the spelling of redhat-release in the --rhversion documentation.
        (Spotted by Bob Plankers )
    
2001-05-19 14:57  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.71, VERSION_1_7): 
        Bumping to release 1.7 since things have been stable.
    
2001-05-04 00:19  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.70): 
        BUGFIX: Fixing the case where we've been given an absolute path, but the
        architecture doesn't match the actual machine.
    
2001-05-04 00:14  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.69): 
        BUGFIX: Evidently not everyone agrees on the format of the LIST command.
        Make our best guess.  
        (Pointed out by Michael Hoffman )
    
2001-04-29 21:32  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.68): 
        Added the ability to specify --include or --exclude more than once to
        include/exclude more than one pattern.
    
2001-04-28 13:52  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.67): 
        Added a --absolute option to specify that the --dir option is an absolute
        path: we should not attempt to change in to the architecture directories or
        anything.
        BUGFIX: Added a check to see if MDTM is a supported operation before
        attempting to use it.
    
2001-04-26 19:17  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.66): 
        Added a TODO for local update directories.
    
2001-04-26 11:48  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.65): 
        Bumping version to 1.7 beta before I forget.
    
2001-04-26 11:44  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.64, VERSION_1_6): 
        Bumping version to 1.6
    
2001-04-26 11:38  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.63): 
        Added support for updating "powertools" packages on servers that use the
        "new" (now a month old) layout for the updates directories.
    
2001-04-24 11:01  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.62): 
        Updates to the FAQ about the anonymous login problem.
    
2001-04-16 17:54  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.61): 
        Fogot to update the TODOs after added version string comparisons.
    
2001-04-16 17:47  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.60): 
        Added a FAQ section to the documentation since I get a lot of similar
        questions.
    
2001-04-13 11:35  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.59): 
        BUGFIX: Handling the way RedHat's FTP server rejects anonymous
        connections when it is full.
        BUGFIX: Some FTP servers only allow SIZE to be used on binary files, some
        don't allow it at all -- check before trying to use it.
    
2001-04-12 23:58  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.58): 
        Documentation update.
    
2001-04-12 23:53  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.56): 
        --hash now accepts a parameter, the number of bytes per hash, --download now
        resumes downloads that previously failed, compares version numbers instead
        of just relying on differences.
        (Excellent patch from Jason Grimes )
    
2001-04-04 11:20  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.53, VERSION_1_5): 
        Setting version to 1.5.
    
2001-04-04 11:13  miner

    * configure.in (1.5), rhupdate.pl (1.52): 
        Reworded the note about Net::FTP and Pod::Usage because some people had
        problems understanding it.
    
2001-04-03 10:01  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.51): 
        Added --version option
        Fixed-up the error exit status and the --help processing.
    
2001-04-01 14:07  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.50): 
        Added a comment about Pod::Usage depending on File::Spec.
    
2001-04-01 13:36  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.49): 
        Checking to make sure that we're looking at a valid architecture.
    
2001-04-01 03:08  miner

    * configure.in (1.4), rhupdate.pl (1.48): 
        Set the location of "locale" via configure.
        Deal with locale not returning anything interesting.
    
2001-03-29 19:10  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.47): 
        Added yet another TODO.
    
2001-03-29 13:51  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.46): 
        Updated to change in to the correct locale/etc (redhat changed their updates
        layout.)
    
2001-03-28 23:31  miner

    * configure.in (1.3), Makefile.in (1.1), INSTALL (1.1), rhupdate.pl (1.45): 
        Changed the installed program name to just rhupdate, not rhupdate.pl
        Added Makefile.in, manpage, install-sh, and INSTALL to the distribution.
        Set up configure to create the Makefile.
        The Makefile now correctly installs the application.
        Updated documentation to reflect the new installation method.
    
2001-03-28 21:38  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.44): 
        Added some rudimentary install instructions and a TODO about an actual
        install make target.
    
2001-03-28 21:28  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.43): 
        Implementing/documenting --all, to download all available updates, not just
        those installed and different.
    
2001-03-28 21:02  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.42):
        Added documentation for the download directory option.
    
2001-03-28 20:48  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.41): 
        Added powertools to the TODOs.
    
2001-03-28 20:39  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.40): 
        Add a note to the docs about the include/exclude precedence.
    
2001-03-28 20:35  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.39): 
        BUGFIX (from 1.38): No need to check for existance of the download
        directory if we're not downloading.
    
2001-03-28 20:30  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.38): 
        Added the ability to specify a download directory with the --download
        option.
    
2001-03-26 07:46  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.37): 
        Add a note to the docs about version numbers.
        More TODOs.
    
2001-03-25 12:36  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.36): 
        More TODOs.
    
2001-03-25 11:36  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.35): 
        Added another TODO.
    
2001-03-25 11:33  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.34): 
        Added TODOs to the POD so people know what I'm thinking about.
    
2001-03-25 11:01  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.33): 
        BUGFIX: Errors is the retry code caused things not to work when --retry
        wasn't specified.
        BUGFIX: Handling bad hostnames properly.
    
2001-03-22 20:12  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.32): 
        Add --passive option to FTP is passive mode.
    
2001-03-22 15:22  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.31): 
        Added --retries and --hash options.
        --retries specifies the number of retries to the FTP server (or infinite.)
        --hash prints hashes as files are downloaded.
        Changed to set the modification times on the local files correctly.
    
2001-03-22 08:33  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.30): 
        Getting rid of the 'a' in the display of the version as well.
    
2001-03-22 08:30  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.29): 
        Getting rid of the 'a' in the beta version number (for the file name, that
        is.)
    
2001-03-22 08:06  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.28, VERSION_1_4): 
        One last note about Kernel upgrades in the documentation.
        Stable release 1.4.
    
2001-03-21 19:35  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.27), configure.in (1.2): 
        Added README
        Added configure checks for Net::FTP and Pod::Parser
        Added documentation of Net::FTP/Pod::Parser requirement and the Kernel
        update.
    
2001-03-21 15:44  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.26): 
        Bump to version 1.4a now that 1.3 is released.
    
2001-03-21 13:20  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.25, VERSION_1_3): 
        Fix the POD
    
2001-03-21 13:10  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.24): 
        Added configure script.
        Setting up the makefile to create the distributions.
        Added --rpm and --uname options to specify the rpm program and uname program
        on the command line.
    
2001-03-21 11:55  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.23): 
        Bumping version to 1.3a
    
2001-03-21 11:50  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.22, VERSION_1_2): 
        BUGFIX: Add the RedHat version directory to the update directory.
    
2001-03-20 15:35  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.21): 
        Hacking up the debug code, checking for some error conditions, fixing broken
        NLST implementations.
    
2001-03-20 14:55  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.20): 
        Added a debug option and some debug output.
        Cleaning up the --dir option (trimming trailing '/')
    
2001-03-20 14:01  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.19): 
        Bump version to 1.2a
    
2001-03-20 14:00  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.18): 
        Added a message about how many updates are available.
    
2001-03-20 13:48  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.17, VERSION_1_1): 
        Bump to version 1.1
    
2001-03-20 12:54  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.14): 
        Alphabetizing the options makes them easier to find.
    
2001-03-20 12:46  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.13): 
        Documentation for --include and --exclude.
    
2001-03-20 12:43  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.12): 
        Added --include and --exclude options to specify include/exclude patterns.
    
2001-03-20 12:01  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.10): 
        Code to read the RedHat version from /etc/redhat-release instead of assuming
        7.0
    
2001-03-20 06:26  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.9, VERSION_1_0): 
        Creating a real "version", set to 1.0
    
2001-03-19 23:08  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.7): 
        Fix things so that it'll work with non ix86 architectures.
    
2001-03-19 23:00  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.6): 
        Allow server, user, password, directory, and arch to be specified on the
        command line.
    
2001-03-19 22:17  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.5): 
        Allow a pattern to be passed in.
        Cache the whole local RPM database instead of querying each
        individually.
        Cache for comparison the server versions, check for the correct
        architecture when listing/downloading.

    * rhupdate.pl (1.4): 
        Add the download link to POD.
    
2001-03-19 17:31  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.3): 
        Added docs.
    
2001-03-19 17:19  miner

    * rhupdate.pl (1.1): Initial Revision

TODO

multiple servers
Allow multiple servers to be queried (but, the question is, should they be queried only if the previous server was unavailable, if there were no updates at the previous server, or always?)

config file
Create/use a config file (~/.rhupdate or something?) To record the defaults for a specific site.

error messages
Print a different error message when there are no updates versus nothing found in the updates directory.

local directory
Allow a local directory where the updates are located to be specified, copy the updates that are applicable.

quiet mode
Include a ``quiet'' mode so that output is only made if there are packages to download. (Also: a double-quiet mode that just returns as the error code the number of packages downloaded or listed.)

AUTHOR

Jonathan J. Miner <jon@jjminer.org>

LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2001 Jonathan J. Miner

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 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

VERSION

1.9 beta
$Revision: 1.102 $