On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Taylor, ForrestX wrote: > Joel wrote: > > Considering I took a boat load of packages out of the installation in > > which I want to perform, I could be here all day trying to edit this > > file. Is there any oter way to rebuild this file other then manually > > editing? > > > > No, there is no way to automatically rebuild the comps file. You could, > however, write a simple script that extracts the names of your rpms and > inserts them in the comps file under the Base section. To get a list of package, on the installed system run this command rpm -qa and save the output/ You can get fancy with --qf to construct an actuall list of files; I'll leave it to you to read the documentation;-0 Hint: rpm -qd rpm to _find_ the documentation. -- Please, reply only to the list.
