Hi All, I am still using FC6 and am toying with over the next few weeks finally taking the plunge, reformatting and installing FC7. My main hassle at the moment, which is pure laziness on my behalf, is the need to remember all the packages I have updated / installed via yum which I have personally installed throughout using FC6. I was wondering if it would be at all possible to perhaps make a working current listing of my "rpm" database under FC6. Possibly something like the following (please feel free to correct me should I be wrong, as terminal work is definitely not my forte :-) ): rpm -qa > rpm-database-listing-FC6 My only problem is then, once I have saved this file to an external HDD, reformatted my computer with FC7 is to get this listing to be parsed by yum and any programs which aren't currently installed to be automatically searched and downloaded (after I have done the manual addition of repos of course). I was thinking I could possibly make FC7 rpm database file, then run either "cmp" or "diff" between the two files, then re-direct the "difference only contained in rpm-database-listing-FC6" to a third file called "yum-FC7-updates-from-FC6" I am thinking I could then possibly go ... yum -y update < yum-FC7-updates-from-FC6 I would be most appreciated if something might be able to comment on whether this process is actually do-able or viable. Thanks for your help. All the best. Cheers, Tony Crouch
