- Listing installed "packages" on the machine; slackware documentation shows how to install, update, and remove but not query installed packages for version information (http://www.slackware.com/config/packages.php.) How would I get a list of all the packages installed with name, version and summary information in csv format? One RedHat 'linux "power user"' way would be rpm -qa --qf '%{NAME},%{VERSION},%{SUMMARY}\n'i'm not sure about the format, but swaret will list packages.
'swaret --list'
http://www.swaret.org for the newest version, or get a slightly outdated version in slackware/extra
- Automate patch and package deployment for a large install base? A couple of RedHat ways would be up2date with the satellite server or autorpm.
again, swaret can easily do that. a cron job would work quite nicely.
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