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/
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From: "David Mandala" <
david.mandala@developonline.com>
To: <
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
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.
| >
| >
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