CentOS - Jul 2008 - How Do I Get Info About New RPMs in Major REPOs

I would like to know about new software (rpms) with a general 
description as they become available in the major repos.

Is there a way to get an RSS feed?

Currently, I run "yum --enablerepo=* list recent" in cron.daily, but
it
does not provide a description.

I'm like a kid in a candy store with all this great free software. 
Thank you, by the way!

-- 
Sincerely,
John Thomas

On 7/13/2008 8:59 AM, John Thomas wrote:
> I would like to know about new software (rpms) with a general 
> description as they become available in the major repos.
> 
> Currently, I run "yum --enablerepo=* list recent" in cron.daily,
but it
> does not provide a description.
The following will cycle through the recently added packages, and then 
output the description for each package.  You could then have this 
mailed to you, or what ever you do with your cron job.

  yum -q list recent | cut -f 1 -d ' ' | grep -v "Recently" \
    | xargs -L 1 yum -q info




Kenneth

--On Sunday, July 13, 2008 7:59 AM -0700 John Thomas 
<gmane-2006-04-16 at jt-socal.com> wrote:
> I would like to know about new software (rpms) with a general description
> as they become available in the major repos.
>
> Is there a way to get an RSS feed?
Most have an -announce mailing list. For CentOS, I use a procmail filter to 
put the package announcements for my version and arch in one Dovecot IMAP 
folder, and all the others in another folder.