On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Buz Davis
<buzdavis earthlink net> wrote:
Alternatively, is there a way to extract such a list in printable form from the cds without going through an install ?
Run this command in the directory on the install CD where the RPM files are kept (/Packages for Fedora, /CentOS for CentOS, Not sure on RHEL...)
rpm --queryformat "%{name} -> %{summary}\n" -qp *.rpm
That will give you a list of all of the packages, and their summary. You can also put %{description} to get the full descriptive text of the package. There are plenty of other tags too; "rpm --querytags" will give you the full list, but alas, no descriptions.
Thanks,
Eric Kerin