> My original questions is whether it's possible -- in one shot -- to get a > list of all packages in configured repositories, whether or not they are > installed on the system. I.e., a sort of "list repository" option. > > As it is, in order to get that full list, I currently run yum three times, > and then use perl to munge the lists. The set of "available" plus the set > of "installed" minus the set of "extra" comprises the list of all packages > on the configured repositories. Since, presumably, yum has that list in > order to compute available and updated packages in the first place, I > wanted to know if there is a list option (perhaps undocumented) to just > dump that list as a whole. Well, I'd hope anyone writing a frontend wouldn't be screen scraping. you could just parse the /var/cache/yum/*/header.info and get the lists that way. but then again all this header.info, etc stuff will be moot before long anyway. -sv
