On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 07:26:12AM -0500, Johnny Hughes wrote: > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Centos 5.0 package updater asking me to update more > than I installed > From: Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org> > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 07:26:12 -0500 > Reply-To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > Delivered-To: niftycluster at niftyegg.com > Return-Path: centos-bounces at centos.org > Delivered-To: centos at centos.org > Message-ID: <488F0C64.3060807 at centos.org> > Organization: The CentOS Project > OpenPGP: id=6AC163B3 > Sender: centos-bounces at centos.org > > Kai Schaetzl wrote: >> Mark Walker wrote on Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:58:37 -0700: >> >>> When I get the list of packages to be updated, there are things that >>> I don't recognize having installed. >> >> Nevertheless, they probably *are* installed. There's a lot been >> installed during setup and because of dependencies. rpm -q packagename >> tells you more. >> > > These can all tell you more: > > rpm -qa | sort > installed_rpms > > then edit that file ... this is everything installed on you machine. or perhaps... #! /bin/bash rpm -qa | while read it do echo "" echo "======================================" rpm -qi $it done > /tmp/listofstuffonmachine > > You can also look at the file named: /root/install.log (that is what is > installed by anaconda). > > Just for the record, the absolutely minimal install you can do in > centos-5 from the installer (if not using a special kickstart file) has > 169 RPM packages and is 670MB (and this install has no real gui software > at all) ... my current workstation has 921 RPM packages installed, and > there are 2458 RPM packages in the Base CentOS-5 OS repository. > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos -- T o m M i t c h e l l Looking for a place to hang my hat.