get full descriptions of installed RPM packages

for rpm-based distros

rpmsortinst.sh

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+#!/bin/bash
+
+echo "Getting sorted list of installed pkgs..."
+date
+
+rpm -qa |sort >~/Installedpkgs.list
+echo EOF>>~/Installedpkgs.list
+
+echo "Done with sort"
+date
+
+let tr=1
+let thisline=0
+
+echo "Reading sorted list into array..."
+{
+ while read elemt; do
+  let thisline=$thisline+1
+
+  # Skip comments
+  commentmp=`(echo $elemt |grep -c -e "\#")`
+  test4blank=${elemt//" "/""}
+
+  if [ $commentmp -gt 0 ]; then
+    echo "Found a comment in line "$thisline".  Skipping."
+  elif [ ${#test4blank} -eq 0 ]; then
+    echo "Blank line at "$thisline".  Skipping."
+  elif [ "$elemt" = "EOF" ]; then
+    echo "EOF found in line "$thisline"."
+    break
+  else
+    riptrack[$tr]=$elemt
+    let tr=$tr+1
+  fi
+
+ done
+} < ~/Installedpkgs.list
+echo "Done with array = "$tr" elements."
+date
+
+# Repeat array
+#for i in "${riptrack[@]}"; do
+# echo $i
+#done
+
+# Blank it
+>~/RPMInstalled.list
+
+echo "Querying all installed pkgs for details..."
+# Do it
+for i in "${riptrack[@]}"; do
+ rpm -qi $i >>~/RPMInstalled.list
+done
+
+echo "Done- PK"
+date
+#read
+#less ~/RPMInstalled.list