Ability so filter/list orphaned packages

[Rehan Khan]

Imported: http://tracker.labix.org/issue240

Reason: Review Issue.

further details: https://blueprints.launchpad.net/smart/+spec/bug-reporting-migration

msg852 (view) Author: urkle Date: 2006-10-30.22:27:15

it would be nice to be able to filter on packages that do not belong to any
external channels (ie.. not the RPM db or DEB db). Thus I can figure out what
packages are orphaned from a system upgrade and deprecated or need to be
re-packages. This is one feature I used from synaptic and it would be nice to
have similar functionality in Smart.

[Rehan Khan (rasker)]

Is this equivalent to a view filter saying : If <name> exists in local db and not in remote channels then select (e.g. for removal/display)?

This function is used in the fedora <major version> upgrade process (e.g. fedora 7 -> fedora 8). It is something like 'remove orphans'

[Edward Rudd (urkle-outoforder)]

Yes, that is what it is.

I use it to find packages that either aren't available anymore, or the Fedora 9 package is versioned as "older" than the Fedora 8 package. (which does happen)

What I have been doing to emulate this is the following

smart query --installed --show-channels > packagelist.txt
grep "\[rpm-sys\]" packagelist.txt

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

Implemented for the command line in Bug #325841