What RPMs has yum upgraded?

[Paul Howarth]

antonio montagnani wrote:
> 2006/3/29, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>:
>> Gerry Tool wrote:
>>> Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>> David Timms wrote:
>>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>>> On Wednesday 29 March 2006 10:21, Sjoerd Mullender wrote:
>>>>>>> You have to specify which packages you want to list.  E.g. use -a
>>>>>>> (all)
>>>>>>> as well:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> rpm -qa --last
>>>>>> Makes sense.  Nice - and covers a reasonable length of time.  Thanks
>>>>> I only see a heap of files that were installed over a 6 minute period
>>>>> during the actual FC5 install (during last week), none of the rpms
>>>>> installed/upgraded since  installation, and definitely not the most
>>>>> recent ones (eg xmms/perl-Video-DVDrip etc) that where only installed
>>>>> last night.
>>>>> Did you find that it showed updates that have been applied with
>>>>> yum/pirut/pup ?  or even your most recent ones ?
>>>> It should show the time of installation of every package in the rpm
>>>> database (regardless of the application used to install them), sorted
>>>> newest first.
>>>>
>>>> Is it possible your clock was wildly wrong when your recent packages
>>>> were installed?
>>>>
>>>> Paul.
>>>>
>>> I don't think so, my experience is the same as David's.  I've yum
>>> updated a number of packages, and the latest ones on the list from rpm
>>> -qa --last are dated the day I updated my FC4 to FC5.  This must be a
>>> bug that should be reported.
>> Strange; I'm not seeing that issue on any of the three boxes I've so far
>> upgraded from FC4 to FC5. I use "yum" and "rpm" to install packages
>> though, never any of the GUIs.
> 
> Same here on three different boxes. Not all packages are reported in
> the log file....
> maybe that only files installed by yum command are included?? and not
> for example yum???

"rpm -qs --last" is a database query, not a log file. It *should* 
include details for every package in the database, no matter how they 
got installed.

Paul.