Not sure if I understand want you mean, but... You can do a nobase install, list all installed packages (rpm -qa), and save this to a file. Then install the base, en list all installed packages again. Export again to a file en diff those two files... Hope this helps. Cheers, Bart Johnny Hughes wrote: > Johnn Tan wrote: > >> Is there a way to list the packages that are in a "base" install, but >> that are not in a "nobase" (core) install? >> >> I did a nobase install, then ran "yum groupinstall Base", but this just >> lists everything in base, including the core packages. >> >> Mainly, I'm just looking to audit the packages, and add only necessary >> ones back to a nobase install. >> >> So far, I've come up with sendmail, man, logwatch, logrotate, vixie-cron. >> >> johnn >> > > The yum group functions do not work well with hidden package groups. > > Probably the easiest way to do what you want is to look at the comps.xml > file directly. > > For CentOS-5 that can be found here: > > http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/repodata/comps.xml > > That file has all the groups and files that are part of CentOS (for all > current arches). > > Thanks, > Johnny Hughes > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20071024/fc80b073/attachment-0005.html>