Bug 71093 - RFE: give listings of foreign packages.
Summary: RFE: give listings of foreign packages.
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 869241
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Satellite 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: Other
Version: unspecified
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Todd Sanders
QA Contact: Red Hat Satellite QA List
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Depends On:
Blocks: sat-nextgen
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-08-08 18:08 UTC by Aleksey Nogin
Modified: 2013-03-19 10:30 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Doc Type: Enhancement
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Last Closed: 2013-03-19 10:30:40 UTC
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Description Aleksey Nogin 2002-08-08 18:08:46 UTC
It would be great to have an additional feature in the "packages" display for
the system - to display all packages that are installed on the system, but are
"foreign" to the current channels. In particular, this will show all packages
that are still lingering from earlier versions of Red Hat Linux, packages
installed from places such as rawhide, etc.

The reason this feature is important is that while RHN can provide the user with
a "freshness" status of most of the packages, the "foreign" packages should be
kept up-to-date manually, which is much harder if you do not remember which
foreign packages you have installed. 

In other words, the display of those packages may have wording along the lines
of "The following packages are installed on the system, but not tracked by the
RHN channels it is subscribed to".

Comment 1 Cristian Gafton 2002-08-15 05:33:38 UTC
Excellent idea - gdk, please add it to the list...


Comment 2 Aleksey Nogin 2004-03-11 09:01:20 UTC
up2date --show-orphans provides this functionality, but it would still
be nice if the Web interface provided it too.

Comment 3 Fanny Augustin 2006-11-14 21:13:57 UTC
Reassigning  bugs from gdk (old RHN engineering Manager) to tsanders (current
RHN engineering manager)

Comment 6 Clifford Perry 2013-03-19 10:30:40 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 869241 ***


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