repo-rss (1) Linux Manual Page
repo-rss – generates an RSS feed from one or more Yum repositories
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://yum.baseurl.org/.
- -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.
