Re: updating package list installation via rpm -qa

[Brett Schwarz <brett_schwarz yahoo com>]

On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:43, Haisam K. Ido wrote:
> Will kickstart work with an updated list of installed packages via "rpm -qa", which 
> includes versioning numbers.  In other words, do I need to remove the versioning 
> numbers for the kickstart installation to work.
> 

I think you need the "NAME" of the package. You can get the names by
doing:

rpm -qp --qf '%{NAME}\n' *.rpm

> Also what if the package I am installing from kickstart is already listed in @ section?
> 

I think this gets resolved by itself. From the source, it looks like
each package is just a key in a dict, and is either selected or not
selected...so I assume there shouldn't be conflict (note, I am not a
python guru); once it is selected, reading it again won't change that...


    --brett

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