[CentOS] Blog article about the state of CentOS

Wed Jun 24 16:37:17 UTC 2020
Lamar Owen <lowen at pari.edu>

On 6/24/20 12:27 PM, Lamar Owen wrote:
> ... You can look in the %{BUILDTIME} query tag for build order; use 
> the following command to get the order:
> rpm -qa --queryformat "%{BUILDTIME} %{NAME} %{EPOCH} %{VERSION} 
> %{RELEASE}\n" | sort 


So, replying to my own post here, as build order is only part of the 
story.  Determining the contents of what was in the actual BUILDROOT at 
%{BUILDTIME} can be right difficult, since the BUILDROOT is not 
guaranteed to have every package that has a prior %{BUILDTIME} in it.