Latest kernel update for F11?

Roberto Ragusa mail at robertoragusa.it
Tue Sep 8 12:28:02 UTC 2009


Fernando Cassia wrote:
> Is there any automatically updated web page showing the latest greatest
> kernel version/build available for a given Fedora version, I mean,
> without getting into the repos?.
> 
> Say, if I want to create a shell script to check the latest kernel on
> the repos and compare it with whatever is installed on the system, what
> would be the URL or place to check?

Is screen scraping the index file of an http/ftp mirror disqualified
because it is "getting into the repos"? :-)

A well thought "wget|grep|tail -1|cut" would do the job.

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   Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it




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