From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; T312461) Description of problem: When using rpmfind to pull the "latest" release of a package it appears to NOT check what is installed currently and many times returns the package that's already installed. Behavior on older releases would either a) return a newer package or b) tell you that your system is currently on the latest release of that package. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Here's an example: [root@DL320 root]# rpm -q openssl openssl-0.9.6b-8 [root@DL320 root]# rpmfind openssl --latest Non qualified hostname: DL320(none) Installing openssl will require 2993 KBytes ### To Transfer: ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS//openssl- 0.9.6b-8.i386.rpm Do you want to download these files to /tmp [Y/n/a/i] ? : Actual Results: It will, in fact, pull the package that's already on the system Expected Results: Information that I either have the latest package installed (and exit) or that newer one exists (and prompt for d/l) Additional info: Seems to be consistent across my 7.2 platforms
Maintainance of the rpmfind, RDF based database was turning into a nightmare, the command line rpmfind tool is not supported anymore (I maintain rpmfind.net and can't keep track anymore), I suggest Red Hat users use up2date to keep their systems up-to-date, sorry about that, Daniel