repo-rss

Section: (1)
Updated: 2005
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NAME

repo-rss  

SYNOPSIS

repo-rss [options] repoid1 [repoid2...]  

DESCRIPTION

repo-rss is a program for generating RSS feeds for one or more Yum repositories.

 

GENERAL OPTIONS

-h, --help
Help; display a help message and then quit.
-f <file>
Specify the file to which the RSS will be written. Default is repo-rss.xml.
-l <link>
Specify the URL to the RSS feed. Default is http://linux.duke.edu/projects/yum/.
-t <title>
Specify the title for the RSS feed. Default is "RSS Repository - Recent Packages".
-d <description>
Specify the description of the RSS feed. Default is "Most recent packages in Repositories".
-r <days>
Specify the number of days to consider most recent. Default is 3.
--tempcache
Enable the use of a temporary directory for the yum cache. This is enabled by default for non-root users.

 

EXAMPLES

Generate an RSS for the updates-released repository and save it as updates-release.xml:
repo-rss -f updates-released.xml updates-released

 

FILES

As repo-rss uses YUM libraries for retrieving all the information, it relies on YUM configuration for its default values like which repositories to use. Consult YUM documentation for details:

/etc/yum.conf
/etc/yum/repos.d/
/var/cache/yum/

 

SEE ALSO

yum.conf (5)
http://yum.baseurl.org/

 

AUTHORS

See the Authors file included with this program.

 

BUGS

There of course aren't any bugs, but if you find any, they should be sent to the mailing list: yum@lists.baseurl.org or filed in trac.