preupgrade from Fedora 7 to Fedora 9 smooth

[stan]

Michael Schwendt wrote:
> On Sat, 17 May 2008 20:29:20 -0700, stan wrote:
>
>   
>> This was not a small upgrade as there are 3900+ packages.  At the end 
>> there are less than a hundred packages that didn't get updated.  Some 
>> from third party repositories, some are obsolete.  Very successful.  To 
>> find the packages that aren't updated run a command like
>> rpm -qa --qf "%{INSTALLTIME}\t%{INSTALLTIME:day}\t%{NAME}\t%{SUMMARY}\n" 
>> | sort -n  > all_installed_pkgs.txt  They will be the packages at the 
>> start of the file.
>>     
>
> rpm -qa --last|tac|less
>
>   
That worked nicely.  Do you have a version that includes a short 
description of the package?  I can't always tell what the package is 
doing from the package name.