Re: Easy way to identify NON-RedHat RPMs?

[Eddie Kuns <ekuns kilroy chi il us>]

Another question.  If I enter:

kilroy> rpm -q lesstif
lesstif-0.86.0-1998.09.17-1
kilroy> rpm -q lesstif-0.86.0-1998.09.17-1
package lesstif-0.86.0-1998.09.17-1 is not installed

I noticed this after a little investigation, running the "foreigners" 
script and seeing that message going to stderr.  Since I couldn't see any 
advantage to it and get the same output either way, I changed the
"rpm -qil `rpm -qa`" to "rpm -qia".  That removed the error message.

Could the problem be that the version number for "lesstif" is too long?  I 
tried all truncated versions and they all claimed to not be installed.

Thanks, Bryan, for the script.  I've also wondered at a quick way to do 
this.  This should be easily adaptable to find all packages not belonging 
to the _currently installed_ version of Red Hat.

                Thanks,

                    Eddie

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