			harvester

This handy little Python script will assist you in making sure you
have the latest versions of packages for your Linux.  Given a set of
target web pages or FTP directories (described in a configuration
file), it will parse them for URLs pointing to RPMs and determine
which ones are newer than corresponding packages on your system.  It can
then either simply report on the update packages or download them.

This package used to be called `rpmwatcher'.  The name change is
because I'm working to extend it to be able to fetch Debian packages and
tarballs in the next major version. If you have a ~/.rpmwatcher file,
you can simply rename it to ~/.harvester and go. Note that the default
for localdir has also changed.

The basic idea for this program came from Emilio Grimaldo's `rpmwatch'
Perl script, which he is withdrawing.  

Note: this script requires Python 1.5!

						Eric S. Raymond
						http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr
						20 October 1998
