determining what RPMs are in an install

[David Mandala]

The way I would do it would be to take an empty machine do a Workstation
install, save a copy of the RPM database then add stuff until it works
as expected and then diff the RPM database.

I am sure there are scripts somewhere that do the installs but I don't
know where they are.

Cheers,

Davidm

On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 12:53, lynn.newton@cox.net wrote:
> Does anyone know how to determine exactly what RPMs
> are bundled together for a given Red Hat standard
> installation, i.e., for a Workstation and for a Server,
> without having to actually install a system and then
> look to see what you've got?
> 
> I've been working on documenting the use of certain
> utilities that I later came to find out are not part
> of the Workstation install, but must be specially
> loaded. This is normally not a big deal, except that
> the material I'm working on is going to be used by
> instructors in classes all over the world, and it would
> be wise in the future to make sure that the functionality
> I'm writing about will be included on the typical
> classroom installation.
> 
> The case in point is the mtools RPM. The GNOME gfloppy
> program allows easy formatting of floppies, and putting
> either an ext2 or DOS file system on it. I have most
> everything there is available to load on my system,
> and assumed that since gfloppy is there, a part of
> GNOME, that mtools would also be there to support it.
> It's not, as someone testing my stuff found out.
> 
> The workaround is to add a note in the textbook that
> such-and-such a package may need to be installed
> specially, but it's better to avoid that sort of
> thing.
> 
> 
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