Script to list the RPM packages installed and their verify status

[David Tonhofer]

Gentlemen!

Ever wanted to have a nice, complete list of the installed RPM packages 
to show to your boss?
With package name, version, release, verification status and time of 
compilation in a
single line, like this?


          bind-utils : 9.3.4           10.P1.el5       ........   Tue 06 
Jan 2009 02:10:11 PM CET
            binutils : 2.17.50.0.6     9.el5           ........   Wed 29 
Oct 2008 10:03:17 PM CET
               bison : 2.3             2.1             ........   Wed 12 
Jul 2006 09:15:46 AM CEST
        bitmap-fonts : 0.3             5.1.1           ........   Wed 12 
Jul 2006 09:14:22 AM CEST
bitstream-vera-fonts : 1.10            7               ........   Fri 08 
Sep 2006 05:47:48 PM CEST
         bluez-gnome : 0.5             5.fc6           ........   Wed 18 
Oct 2006 04:22:58 PM CEST
       bluez-hcidump : 1.32            1               ........   Tue 03 
Oct 2006 12:22:58 AM CEST

Now you can. I have put together a simple Perl script to create said 
list on all of our systems.
Nothing to get too excited over, but as it might be of some use to 
someone other than me, I put it up for grabs here:

http://public.m-plify.net/rpm/rpmsnap.pl

Have a gander (or not, as the case may be). Or possibly you may know 
already of a better program that
does the same? If so, please let me know.

Best regards,

-- David