On Friday 30 July 2004 17:24, Lanman wrote: > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > On Friday 30 July 2004 14:30, Charlie Mahan wrote: > >>On July 30, 2004 12:44:12, Lanman wrote: > >>>To: Our Gang; > >>> > >>>Is there a command that will provide me with a detailed package > >>>list of all installed rpms? Since doing the install on my system, > >>>I've added, updated and removed quite a few of them, and I'd like > >>>to create a repository of the packages that are currently > >>>installed. > >>> > >>>That way, I can re-install them from a local source if I have to > >>>recover from a cooker install of 10.1. I know that I have a > >>> package list from my original install, but I'm looking for an > >>> updated list. > >>> > >>>Is it possible to extract the list from the RPM database? ideas? > >>>suggestions? > >>> > >>> > >>>TIA > >>> > >>>Lanman > >> > >>/var/log/rpmpkgs should show you what you want. > >> > >>It's plain text so it may just be easier than all the grepping and > >>diffing. <GRIN> > >> > >>Charlie > > > > Perhaps you mean '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms'? > > Hoyt; Thanks for the suggestion, but '/var/cache/urpmi/rpms' is where > rpms are temporarily stored until urpmi is ready to install all rpms > that have been selected by the user. Once all the rpms required are > download to this folder, urpmi then installs from that location. > > What I'm actually looking for is a detailed list of the rpms which > would be currently installed on a system, not every package or rpms > that was ever installed on a system. > > Charlie suggested that I try /var/log/rpmpkgs , but that doesn't seem > to be accurate since I see rpms in that list that were recently > removed from the system. > > I'm hoping that I can build a list of the exact rpms which are > currently installed and use it as a guide for creating an archive of > those exact rpms. Once those rpms are archived, I can then burn a CD > or DVD of those rpms and take them to friends and clients and do a > very fast update to any of them, assuming that they're already > running Mandrake 10.0. > > "urpmi *rpm" would do the trick once the CD or DVD had been mounted, > and I could work on another system while that was going on. Since I > have rpms from Charles, PLF, Contribs, etc., I'd like to have the > current ones rapidly available for install on new systems as well. > > Isn't there supposed to be an rpms database on my system? How does > urpmi keep track of what's installed? Hmmm, back to the drawing > board! > > Lanman The reason I made the suggestion was because I couldnt find rpmpkgs. I just looked again and found 2 of them. Sorry if I caused any difficulty. -- Regards; Hoyt
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