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

"Jeff Johnson" <[email protected]> Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:52:09 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.rpm.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Nigel Metheringham <
[email protected]> wrote:

>
> 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.
>

WIth rpm-5.0 (and implemented several years ago, perhaps 4.4.3 I forget),
there is a -T option that will emit topologically sorted queries for several
forms of queries, certainly for rpm -qpT *.rpm.

73 de Jeff

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