On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, Chris Bagwell wrote: > Is it possible to compare and list the RPM packages that are installed > on your system against what the Limbo beta provides? One simple way to check is to sort your packages by install date, something like (from memory) rpm -qa --qf "%{INSTALLTIME} %{NAME}-%{VERSION}-%{RELEASE}\n" | sort -n Most of the time stamps will correspond to a limbo install, so anything older is from an earlier release, and you can think about removing it. Make sure you are on limbo2 (7.3.93) first though, as the limbo1 install fails to upgrade many packages. > Also, during upgrades I've often had duplicate packages installed. An > example of this is that I had 2 versions of fileutils installed after > upgrading to Limbo. An "rpm --query -all" usually turns up those > problems though. It be easier to track down though if I could produce a > list of packages installed with multiple versions. Normally upgrading to a later version will replace any multiple package installs. However fileutils is a known bug, see http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68575 though depending on how they fix it, the fix may not work on an a system already running limbo. To check for duplicate packages try rpm -qa --qf "%{NAME}\n" | sort >/tmp/example.out uniq </tmp/example.out | diff - /tmp/example.out Michael Young