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

Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru <[email protected]> Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:08:13 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Organization EPT Software SAS
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>    2. does 'rpm -qa' yield a tsort of packages? (Brian Reichert)
> Subject:
> does 'rpm -qa' yield a tsort of packages?
> From:
> Brian Reichert <[email protected]>
> Date:
> Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:43:15 -0400
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> Does 'rpm -qa' yeild a topological sort of the the packages?
> 
> More specifically, should 'rpm -qa' yield the same results as the
> rpm/python ts.tsort() method?

What's wrong with calling rpm -qa | sort (usually a less is also 
required as the list is really way too long).

Vlad