It's funny, This morning I was doing a search on Google for Dasding.jpg (a kde wallpaper) and I found a site with a list of all the RPMs in install packages. I don't know if it's what you're looking for, but check out http://rpm.pbone.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Mandala" To: Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 1:10 PM Subject: Re: determining what RPMs are in an install | 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. | > | > | > ________________________________________________ | > See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | > | > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss | | | ________________________________________________ | See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. | | PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us | http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss