On Monday 14 March 2005 15:02, Phil Schaffner wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 11:13 -0600, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > > For example, I have: > > >rpm -qa | grep kernel-2 ; rpm -qa | grep kernel-sm > > An aside to the discussion - the following is a LOT more efficient than > the above: > > # rpm -q kernel kernel-smp > True if you know the exact spelling of the package name, case and special characters included. But 151 packages on my FC3 system have package names that are mixed case, 38 packages underscores in their name rather than hyphens (dashes) or in addition to hyphens. 57 have the string fc3 while 84 have FC3. Fortunately none have spaces in their names. So if I am not exactly sure of the spelling I will do: rpm -qa| grep -i regex where the regular expression is usually just a few letters, enough to produce a short list. Lots of inconsistencies exist which really ought to be cleaned up. There is a cron job run daily (/etc/cron.daily/rpm) that generates a file of packages names that are installed (/var/log/rpmpkgs). That file could be grep-ed instead of the output of rpm -qa for faster performance if that file is current enough. (it runs at 0402 if the box is up or shortly after startup if you have anacron enabled.) paul -- Paul Almquist paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Eau Claire, WI USA
