ESR: Goodbye Fedora

[Don Levey]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 08:40 +0000, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Don Levey wrote:
> > What if... there were a way of going through the RPM database, creating
> > a list, and presenting that to some sort of kickstart routine?
> 
> I actually did something similar last time I upgraded.
> 
> Before I upgraded, I ran
> rpm -qa --qf "%{name}.%{arch}\n" > packages
> 
> Afterwards,
> for i in `cat packages` ; do rpm -q $i ; done | grep "is not installed"\
>  | cut -d\  -f2
> presented me with a list of packages that were not installed that I
> could have fed to yum.
> 
...
> Hope this helps,

Yes it does - thanks!  The next upgrade should be coming soon for me.
 -Don