Automated generation of installed packages list? (RHEL5)

[Aaron Lippold]

Cross posting ... my bad but I thought for sure you guys would have
already had to address this issue with Revisor....

given the output of rpm -qa can pykickstart work with the comps.xml
file to create a 'grouped and minus' package list?

Hi,

I have been messing with Revisor - a FedoraCommunity project - and it
uses pykickstart which may - using the comps.xml file be able to
generate a list like that for you. Email the revisor list and see if
anyone smart with the code could give you some quick python to do it.

Aaron

On 7/9/07, JB Segal <jb at smarterliving.com> wrote:
> Quoth Jason Edgecombe (jason at rampaginggeek.com):
> > JB Segal wrote:
> > >A somewhat more than cursory glance at the archives doesn't show the answer to this...
> > >At the end of a manually-configured install, where I spent a reasonable amount of time
> > >going through the available packages, picking those I wanted, and those I didn't, the only
> > >evidence of this left in the anaconda-ks.cfg is the wholly-insubstantial lines
> > >%packages
> > >@editors
> > >
> > >and that's IT.
> > >
> > >A) Would anyone like to guess whether this is a bug, a design lacuna, or a 'feature'?
> > >B) Is there any way to generate an appropriate ks.cfg based upon this system?
> > >
> > >While it seems that the KS docs have been revised and updated for RHEL5, at this hour on
> > >a Sunday, I'm not managing to find anything about reverse-engineering a package list, nor
> > >anything about why I should ever NEED to do that.
> > >
> > >Thanks for any help or suggestions you can give,
> > run "rpm -qa" on the installed system. That will generate a package list for you.
> >
>
> Yes. Sorry, I was more thinking of something in a default ks.cfg format,
> with the groups that are installed, and the modifications to those
> groups - for example, with RHEL4, I got the following in the
> autogenerated file:
>
> %packages --resolvedeps
> @ editors
> @ emacs
> @ system-tools
> @ dialup
> @ ftp-server
> @ emacs
> @ server-cfg
> @ development-tools
> kernel-smp
> -bluez-pin
> e2fsprogs
> lvm2
> -httpd-manual
> -distcache
> -uucp
> -samba-client
> -x3270-x11
> -php
> -cvs
> kernel-devel
> -rcs
> kernel-smp-devel
> -xdelta
> -valgrind
> -valgrind-callgrind
>
> and I was hoping for something more like that. (Actually, it's not
> impossible that some number of the '-package' lines were manually
> configured by me. I'm not certain anymore... but still, I know the
> '@ group' lines WEREN'T, and the fact that RHEL5 doesn't provide those I
> figure MUST be a bug.) I'll go digging through bugzilla today to see
> what's already been filed...
>
>
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