Conflicts in latest update

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:46:16 -0400, James wrote:

>  Rpmfusion can run auto QA like tests on rpmfusion and Fedora (I don't
> think we can legally do the same ... but I'm not sure). Finding the file
> conflicts automatically is harder (you need to download all the rpms),
> and it's not fast, but it's possible (Seth has a script, IIRC).

I've created and published a proof-of-concept script a couple of times
before. It's the one I've used to file all those bugs about conflicts
in Rawhide.
http://mschwendt.fedorapeople.org/confcheck-remote-split2.py
(that's a more experimental version that tries to work with just 1GB of RAM)
It does not download all packages, but just the headers. For packages
stored in a local mirror, the speed isn't too bad. It ran approx. 11 minutes
with remote Rawhide, though, on an average dual core machine.

Will Woods/autoqa features a conflicts checker, too,
https://fedorahosted.org/pipermail/autoqa-results/2010-March/date.html
which is why I haven't continued with filing further tickets or with
enhancing my script.