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>You've obviously already received your answer, but just wanted to point
>out that running "yum list extras" will show you all of the packages
>that are currently installed which are not available in currently
>subscribed channels or enabled yum repositories. This is basically the
>RHEL5 equivalent of the old "up2date --show-orphans" feature.
>
>After upgrades I've generally found it a good idea to use these features
>to identify old packages which should be removed, or possibly 3rd party
>packages which might need to be upgraded.
Thanks to you, as well.
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