Re: does 'rpm -qa' yield a tsort of packages?

[Nigel Metheringham <nigel metheringham dev intechnology co uk>]

On 19 Jun 2008, at 17:08, Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru wrote:
> What's wrong with calling rpm -qa | sort (usually a less is also  
> required as the list is really way too long).


Mostly that tsort (topological sort) bears pretty much no relation
to an alphabetical sort.

It might be possible to use the tsort shell command (for systems
that carry it) if you made rpm out the dependancy data in an appropriate
fashion, but it wouldn't work as is.

	Nigel.
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