does 'rpm -qa' yield a tsort of packages?

[Brian Reichert]

Does 'rpm -qa' yeild a topological sort of the the packages?

More specifically, should 'rpm -qa' yield the same results as the
rpm/python ts.tsort() method?

[Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru]

2. does 'rpm -qa' yield a tsort of packages? (Brian Reichert)
does 'rpm -qa' yield a tsort of packages?
Wed, 18 Jun 2008 15:43:15 -0400
Does 'rpm -qa' yeild a topological sort of the the packages?
More specifically, should 'rpm -qa' yield the same results as the
rpm/python ts.tsort() method?

What's wrong with calling rpm -qa | sort (usually a less is also
required as the list is really way too long).

Vlad

[Nigel Metheringham]

Post by Vladimir Mihai Pacuraru
What's wrong with calling rpm -qa | sort (usually a less is also
required as the list is really way too long).

Mostly that tsort (topological sort) bears pretty much no relation
to an alphabetical sort.

It might be possible to use the tsort shell command (for systems
that carry it) if you made rpm out the dependancy data in an appropriate
fashion, but it wouldn't work as is.

Nigel.
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[Jeff Johnson]

On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:23 PM, Nigel Metheringham <

Post by Nigel Metheringham

What's wrong with calling rpm -qa | sort (usually a less is also required
as the list is really way too long).

Mostly that tsort (topological sort) bears pretty much no relation
to an alphabetical sort.

WIth rpm-5.0 (and implemented several years ago, perhaps 4.4.3 I forget),
there is a -T option that will emit topologically sorted queries for several
forms of queries, certainly for rpm -qpT *.rpm.

73 de Jeff