I think it is a good idea. Users can then easily see what extra things they have. It does not add confusion because it is a secondary option to list. -connie On Wed, 28 Aug 2002, seth vidal 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 > >
