Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
How many packages does this list:
$ rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n"
[root@arbol ~]# rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | wc
661 661 19001
I seem to be missing half of the installed rpms. This machine's
fraternal twin has twice that number. (While I might have missed
installing one or two packages on one or the other machine, this
difference is quite high).
[root@ancho ~]# rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}.%{ARCH}\n" | wc
1138 1138 33205
Barring any other good ideas, I'm tempted for finish populating the
database from the extra entries on the other machine and running some
checking script to see if the RPMs were really installed. Sigh.
Sounds like a good plan.
Paul.