How to list top-level RPMs?

Sat Feb 12 10:53:14 UTC 2005

On 02/12/2005 02:39:11 AM, Thomas Zehetbauer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> how can I get a list of top-level RPMs (packages that are not  
> required
> by any other package)?

Might be a faster way, but ...

[mpeters at devel ~]$ rpm --test -e abiword 2> /dev/null
[mpeters at devel ~]$ echo $?
0
[mpeters at devel ~]$ rpm --test -e glibc 2> /dev/null
[mpeters at devel ~]$ echo $?
1

Script to querry for all packages and then attempt uninstall them with  
rpm --test -e

Shouls test succeed (exit status 0) echo the package to a file.

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Michael A. Peters
http://mpeters.us/