potential update list

[Gregory Pittman]

Michael D. Berger wrote:

>I would like to get a list of the packages that:
>
>1. are installeded my system
>AND
>2. would be updated if I were to run yum update.
>
>Is there a way to do this?
>  
>

Check the contents of the file /var/log/rpmpkgs, though this seems to be 
updated when you boot, so if you have updated since you booted, it won't 
list the newest versions of what was just updated. The nice thing is 
that it's in alphabetical order.

If you want to find out what was updated when, check /var/log/yum.log 
and its antecedents (yum.log.1, and so on), but you will have to be root 
to view this.

When you have some time, fish around in /var/log, there's lots of 
interesting stuff there.

Greg