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

[JT <jtraub dragoncat net>]

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On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Jesse Keating wrote:
> The problem is that many files get created in %post sections of rpm
> installations, which aren't owned by any rpm.  The contents of
> /boot/grub/ are a great example.

That's fine and I'm willing to do the grunt work of finding them out.  
This is more for me to find 'programs I have installed and use very 
infrequently, but still want to update'

I was hoping for something a bit less time-expensive than the find with 
rpm -qf truthfully.  It *seems* like since there are python modules to 
interface to RPM and query data, that someone perhaps had written one 
which did this task by getting a list of all files which are controlled by 
RPM and then doing a find-like walk of the (specified tree (ie excluding 
/home :)) and reporting any files which were in the walk but not in the 
database.

Yes, I can (and will if noone else has) write this myself, but I was 
hoping to find one pre-written :)

- --JT

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