[COLUG] Finding out which updates have been applied to a Red Hat system?

[Travis Sidelinger]

Does the file listing include the file/directory modify times?  If you 
tell which files where changed after the date and time of the install, 
then you will at least know which files need changed.

Future suggestion, at a minimum use standard builds and a simple backup 
that includes: "rpm -qa > /etc/package.list" and "tar -cvzf etc.tar.gz /etc"

Peter Kukla wrote:
> Hello all,
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> Is there any way to tell at a glance what updates have
> been applied to a Red Hat 7.x system?
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> This is a system maintained by a new-to-Linux friend,
> who has inherited it from a former co-worker.
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> The server lost a disk, and they've reloaded the OS
> from CD, now they want to get the OS in sync with how
> it had been before.  They have a file listing of the
> pre-crash system which they can use for comparison.
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> (My personal suggestion would be to simply upgrade
> this dinosaur, but that's apparently not an option,
> although I don't know why.)
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> Any ideas?
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> Thanks in advance for any & all suggestions.
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