"Brian J. Murrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> One of the fallouts of all of the recent library restructuring et. al
> is that I have extraneious "leftover" unused packges on my system.
> Take for example gmp. I have a system here with the following:
>
> # rpm -q libgmp3 gmp
> libgmp3-3.1.1-3mdk
> gmp-2.0.2-16mdk
>
> Yet the package "gmp" does not any longer seem to be a valid package
> in either Cooker or 8.0.
>
> I want to rid my system of all of these obsolete packages but am not
> sure the best way to go about it. I was thinking something like:
>
> rpm -qa --queryformat "%{NAME} %{VERSION} %{RELEASE}\n" |
> while read pkg ver rel; do
> if ! urpmq $pkg &>/dev/null; then
> echo $pkg
> fi
> done
>
> should work.
>
> Is this the best/right way to go about this or is there any better
> ways?
urpmi_rpm-find-leaves from rpmtools should do this, but i'm not sure
if his still works, pixel ?
