Feature changed by: Thomas Schmidt (digitaltomm) Feature #310752, revision 3 - Title: I need to know what I am missing + Title: System upgrade: Store list of previously installed packages openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bruce Korb (bkorb) Description: When one does an upgrade install (or even an overlay install), it would be Really Useful to use the output of $(rpm --query --all) on the previous installation in order to select packages for the next installation. Clearly you cannot guarantee getting them all and there are so many reasons why. Stillandall, various packages that I use all the time are on the repos but not installed until I trip over them and fire up Yast to go fix the issue. So, my suggestion is this: 1. make a better effort to install packages from the repo (e.g. guile- devel, gperf-devel, etc.) 2. where you cannot do it, leave behind information about the omitted packages in some well-named file (e.g. /var/log/missing-packages.txt) so I can tell straight away what I still have to install. This way, I don't have to go stub a toe to find out. Thank you so much!! Regards, Bruce Discussion: #1: Richard Bos (rbos) (2010-10-25 23:49:30) Use rpm -qa -qf "%{NAME}\n" as query instead, that will only output the rpm name and not the version. That will make it easier to install missing rpms later on (on the new release for example). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310752