Shortcut for grabbing latest version of every package from a directory?

[Martin Langhoff]

I've been running a 'testing' repo for the next release of my custom
spin (OLPC XS). It's accumulated a number of interim 'testing'
packages, which I rather not publish in the 'stable' repo. I just want
to migrate the latest of each package tothe stable repo.

I am about to script it, but if there's any existing utility that is
friendly to bash scripting... would be nice to know.

(related - what's the canonical way to compare NVR in bash?)

cheers,



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[Seth Vidal]

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 12:07 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
>  I've been running a 'testing' repo for the next release
> of my custom
>  spin (OLPC XS). It's accumulated a number of interim 'testing'
>  packages, which I rather not publish in the 'stable' repo. I just want
>  to migrate the latest of each package tothe stable repo.
>  
>  I am about to script it, but if there's any existing utility that is
>  friendly to bash scripting... would be nice to know.
>  
>  (related - what's the canonical way to compare NVR in bash?) 
you want to get all the latest versions of all pkgs from a dir listed?
run repomanage

repomanage -n -k 1 /path

and evr comparisons can be done via rpmdev-vercmp

-sv