Re: RPM should be renamed to WTF

Slackware doesn't maintain an rpm database, it just provides rpm for
installing and conversion.

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 06:32:53 -0700 (PDT)
Rhett Maxwell <rhettmaxwell-/[email protected]> wrote:

> 
> > use rpm, so it won't show up in /var/log/packages,
> > where SW stores info about
> > installed software. 
> 
> Does this file contain just a list of the packages
> installed?  You can get this information from rpm
> directly by 'rpm -qa'.  If you look in your cron
> directory, /etc/cron.daily, you may find a script that
> regenerates this file every night.  Mine looks like
> this:
> 
> #!/bin/sh
> 
> rpm -qa --qf
> '%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}.rpm\n' 2>&1 \
>         | sort > /var/log/rpmpkgs
> 
> The filenames are different, but its probably the same
> file.
> 
> -rhett
> 
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