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From: wimpunk on 4 Mar 2010 12:15 Hi, I'm trying to find a way to detect which packages are added since installing the basic system. Maybe it is question for scripting guys, or maybe there is a program for it, but I didn't found it. Let me try to explain what exactly I'm looking for. When installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, you select the best fitted option from the YaST Software Manager. Let us call this collection INSTALLED_PACKAGES. While using the system, you add some packages based on your needs. As far as I remember, one of those was the mc package. Let us call this collection ADDED_PACKAGES. This is the list I'm trying to created. As far as I remember, while installing mc, it also installed the slang package. So the ADDED_PACKAGES install packages they require which we call DEPEND_PACKAGES. So I want to generate a list with the real ADDED_PACKAGES, not the DEPEND_PACKAGES. Actually, my final goal is to verify if there wasn't a better fitted choise while installing the system en choosing the options in the Software Manager. Is there anyone out there with some hints? Kind regards, wimpunk.
From: Alan on 4 Mar 2010 14:02 wimpunk wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to find a way to detect which packages are added > since installing the basic system. Maybe it is question for scripting > guys, or maybe there is a program for it, but I didn't found it. > Let me try to explain what exactly I'm looking for. > > When installing SuSE Linux Enterprise Server, you select the best > fitted option from the YaST Software Manager. Let us call this > collection INSTALLED_PACKAGES. > While using the system, you add some packages based on your needs. As > far as I remember, one of those was the mc package. Let us call this > collection ADDED_PACKAGES. This is the list I'm trying to created. > As far as I remember, while installing mc, it also installed the slang > package. So the ADDED_PACKAGES install packages they require which we > call DEPEND_PACKAGES. > > So I want to generate a list with the real ADDED_PACKAGES, not the > DEPEND_PACKAGES. Actually, my final goal is to verify if there > wasn't a better fitted choise while installing the system en choosing > the options in the Software Manager. > > Is there anyone out there with some hints? > > Kind regards, > > wimpunk. # man rpm (especially the --last option) e.g. # rpm -qa --last with a bit of scripting work you could select out anything installed AFTER the original install date -- email ~= s/nospam//
From: Eef Hartman on 5 Mar 2010 04:15 wimpunk <ybwdlapvxvun(a)spammotel.com> wrote: > While using the system, you add some packages based on your needs. As > far as I remember, one of those was the mc package. Let us call this > collection ADDED_PACKAGES. This is the list I'm trying to created. > As far as I remember, while installing mc, it also installed the slang > package. So the ADDED_PACKAGES install packages they require which we call > DEPEND_PACKAGES. The system doesn't know anymore which packages are only installed because of dependencies for other packages. So i.e. when you REMOVE mc it won't remove slang too as it doesn't know that it was only because OF the dependency to mc that this was added. Others have already given you the --last option to rpm, with which you can make a date-sorted list of all packages and then (with an editor or grep) remove the "install list" ones (they will be the oldest ones so at the END of the list as --last sorts on "newest first". -- ******************************************************************* ** Eef Hartman, Delft University of Technology, dept. SSC/ICT ** ** e-mail: E.J.M.Hartman(a)tudelft.nl - phone: +31-15-278 82525 ** *******************************************************************
From: J G Miller on 5 Mar 2010 07:14 On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:15:34 +0100, Eef Hartman wrote: > The system doesn't know anymore which packages are only installed > because of dependencies for other packages. But you can use rpm to ascertain which packages depend on a particular package and so manually build a list of other packages which can be removed when removing something which has dependencies.
From: Taki on 6 Mar 2010 10:52
On 03/05/2010 04:14 AM, J G Miller wrote: > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:15:34 +0100, Eef Hartman wrote: > >> The system doesn't know anymore which packages are only installed >> because of dependencies for other packages. > > But you can use rpm to ascertain which packages depend on a particular > package and so manually build a list of other packages which can be > removed when removing something which has dependencies. > You can try "rpmorphan" from the Packman repo. |