[K12OSN] How to discover latest packages installed by Yum

[Ben Nickell]

>>cat /var/log/yum.log
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>Unfortunately, this file on my server is empty. Nothing in it. Maybe
>because I  rebooted the server since my last yum update. Is there any
>other way?
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>Is there a dir where the downloaded packages are kept? Maybe I can
>sort them by date?
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Try...

cat /var/log/yum.log .1  

or yum.log.2, etc.  

or if your logs are compressed. 

zcat /var/log/yum.log.1.gz

to see all yum logs and their sizes...

ls -l /var/log/yum*

You could also try, 'ls -latr'  (show the latest file last) is the 
various directories in /var/cache/yum. The subdirectories here should 
correspond with  repositories configured in yum.conf.  If you have done 
a 'yum clean' or something these could be wiped out, so this method 
isn't very reliable.

On my system, the packages for the 'updates' repository is in 
/var/cache/yum/updates/packages

HTH,
Ben Nickell