Package Management
David Golden
dg-junk at hyperbolic.net
Wed Jan 7 21:38:42 UTC 2004
At 1/7/2004 03:40 PM, Ben Davis wrote:
>Since I'm no fan of redhat-config-packages, and I prefer to do stuff with
>rpm from the commandline anyways, I've found a roundabout way of using
>config-packages to give me a list of 'to-install' packages, and then
>cut-n-paste into a script... rh-config-packages sorts out the
>dependencies, but I have other scripts that will do this... all I really
>want to have is the packages list of old. I installed the KDE 'bits' my
>way, now I need development packages on the system, and this will require
>a lot of time, just to get the list of pkgs installed under 'Development
>Tools' 'X Software Devel' etc.
I had similar issues with an upgrade. redhat-config-packages and up2date
were both unreliable for me. I found yum to be much better than either and
switched to it exclusively. The lack of a front end is a bit challenging,
but among other things, I wrote a perl script to screen-scrape yum's
repository and installed file lists and give me a nicely grouped listing of
what's on the system.
A short description of the script is posted at
http://www.dagolden.com/cgi-bin/main/index.cgi?page_id=YumGroupsScript
You can get the script itself at
http://www.dagolden.com/files/scripts/yumgroups
No warranties, of course! YMMV.
Good luck,
David
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