Thanks g and Patrick; On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 00:11 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On 02/02/09 22:56, William Case wrote: > > Sorry g, I asked the wrong question. > > > > On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 22:13 -0500, William Case wrote: > >> Thanks g; > >> > >> I had tried to phrase my question in such a way as to indicate I was > >> asking a deeper question than could be answered by 'man'. > >> > >> For example, I have /var/log/rpmpkgs-20090201, that contains more > >> packages than my most recent update but not all. I have 5 dated rpmpkgs > >> in all. How or what is 'yum list recent' giving me? In this context, > >> what does recent mean? Or, does yum get its recent list elsewhere? > > > > 'yum list recent' tells me what is recent in (external) repositories. > > > > I need to construct an rpm --query to get the answer I want about what > > has been recently downloaded onto my machine. I'll try that now. > g's response shows me how to do it within the parameters I was thinking of -- yum and rpm. > Does it have to be rpm? You can always do a "tail /var/log/yum.log". > > poc > That is even more ingenious -- at least to me -- because I wasn't thinking of and probably would not have come up with /yum.log -- obvious though it is on hindsight. -- Regards Bill Fedora 10, Gnome 2.24.2 Evo.2.24.3, Emacs 22.2.1 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
