Re: Finding all files on a system not in an RPM

[Aaron Bennett <aaron bennett olin edu>]

I'd try something like this:  (disclaimer: quick, dirty, and slooow)

for FILE in $(find .); do
   if ! rpm -qf ${FILE} >/dev/null; then
       echo ${FILE} not found in db
   fi
done


JT wrote:

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> I know that this has been asked before, but I don't know when, and there 
> are no search facilities (that I could find) to look through old posts 
> except manually, which frankly, would take way too long.
>
> So,  I'll ask a) for a search tool to be added to the RPM-list archives at 
> some point (please :) and b) for any useful ways people have of creating a 
> list of all files on a system which are not part of any RPM on the system.
>
> The reason for this is that I'm planning on upgrading my machine this 
> weekend, and I want to build custom RPMs for anything which I haven't done 
> so for already so that I can track them more easily in the future.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> - --JT
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Aaron Bennett
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Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering