I have made a small script that prints a list of packages recently added
to the mirror (it does lftp -ls on the .../core/release directory of a
mirror and displays the names of all rpms that have a creation date
later than a given reference date). That helps to rapidly get informed
on "what is new".
Its nice and fun to use (and should not create much load on the server)
- but in spite of specifying a recent reference date - it creates quite
some output. Default reference date is Feb 15 12h00 (the date when the
iso was defined), default mirror the Erfurt mirror of Wobo - but you can
change this with command-line arguments (there is also a --help
argument). If you want, you can fetch it from
http://cui.unige.ch/~harms/Download/rpmdates.pl
Here is an example of using it
<harms@ltjuergen mageia> ./rpmdates.pl --time "7 mar"
Reference time = 03/07/11 00:00:00
Mirror =
ftp://ftp.mandrivauser.de/mirrors/Mageia/distrib/cauldron/i586/media
Mar 7 02:29 choqok
Mar 7 02:29 choqok-devel
Mar 7 04:09 devil-utils
Mar 7 09:01 jsch
... and so on
