Actaully, it really shouldn't matter how its presented, the same way as "yum list" would be fine, since I would have to pipe it through a script anyway. Only go to the trouble of the -d things if you want it for all the other list options... Andrew On Aug 28,2002 00:26:34 -0400, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote : >On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 16:37, Andrew Schretter wrote: >> I had mentioned this to Seth and wanted to bounce it around the list and >> see if anyone objected to adding a small bit of functionality... >> >> I propose an added list option, something like "yum list extra" that will >> compare the list of installed RPMs with those in all repositories. It will >> then report any RPMs that are installed on the local system that are not >> in the repositories. It would only compare based on name, not on version. >> >> The purpose of such an addition would be to help in syncronizing a system >> with a repository where, for instance, packages are removed from the >> repository. Nightly you would run "yum install \*" then "yum list extra" >> to find any packages installed that have been removed from the repository >> so you can pipe the results to a script for removing the rpms. >> > >the scripting part could be tricky but not impossible - I think having a >yum list not-from-repositories would be fine - it wouldn't add pain to >the command line options b/c it is secondary argument to list and its >not intrusive. > >the only difficult parts would be providing a good list for you in a >sensible format. > >I was thinking maybe making the list pkgs command do intelligent things >with the -d levels - so that if you do a -d 2 its the normal columned >output, but -d 1 is csv'd list, that way its more parseable. > >and -d1 just lists package names, not ver-release stuff. > >anyone else think andrew's idea is worth any additional discussion? Its >about 10, maybe 15 lines of code, I think. :) > >-sv > > -- Andrew Schretter Mathematics Department Duke University
