On Thu, 7 Dec 2006, David Timms wrote:
- saving the complete packages installed list would be good if you end up
needing to reinstall from scratch
{ rpm -qa>packages.2006-12-whenever.txt }.
In a standard install, this information is saved by a cron job in /var/log/rpmpkgs. This file is updated nightly and rotated weekly, with four generations of backup.
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
