Re: updating package list installation via rpm -qa

["Haisam K. Ido" <haisam ido org>]

rpm -qq --qf '%{NAME}\n' losetup-2.11 returns losetup

however,

 rpm -qa | rpm -qq --qf '%{NAME}\n' -

does not read the standard in of rpm -qa, or can it?

I guess I'm going to have to resort to perl.

Brett Schwarz wrote:
> 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