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

[Peter Kukla]

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

I will check to see what further information is
available about the files & system are accessible.  I
think that at least a partial backup of the system may
be available, and they may be able to get the /var/log
/var/lib files mentioned below.

I believe that dates/times are available for the file
listing, but don't know for sure.

-peter




--- Jim <jep200404 at columbus.rr.com> wrote:

> Dane Miller wrote:
> 
> > Peter Kukla wrote:
> > > Is there any way to tell at a glance what
> updates have
> > > been applied to a Red Hat 7.x system?
> 
> > > They have a file listing of the
> > > pre-crash system which they can use for
> comparison.
> > 
> > Does rpm keep a package cache in /var/cache like
> debian does when using
> > apt? 
> 
> I see /var/log/rpmpkgs* files and 
> I see /var/lib/rpm directory with 15 (Berkeley DB
> files) files. 
> The interesting information is _inside_ those files,
> 
> so a directory listing of them doesn't help. 
> 
> Peter's friend has a quite difficult job of trying
> to figure 
> out which packages need to be installed, and which
> version of 
> those packages is needed. We don't even know if the
> file listing 
> is just file names, or has dates and times also. 
> 
> Peter, is there any more information? 
> 
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