On 10/19/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael(a)gmx.net> wrote:
On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:56:08 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> On 10/19/06, Mike Canann wrote:
>
> > Where do you get the list of packages for a FC release? And what is the
> > format of that list?
Best would be local on-disk access to all the repository trees you need,
since for some features you need access to more than the package file
names.
A good start would be to compare Yum metadata of multiple repositories,
e.g. fedora-core-5-i386 and fedora-core-development-i386, but for
examining some details in the RPM package headers, you need to
download copies of the headers (e.g. for Obsoletes etc.)
> You'll have to talk to Karsten for that information. Your best bet is
> to try to catch him in the #fedora-docs channel on freenode (quaid).
> This is actually a tricky project with tricky logic because of things
> like, what do you do if a package gets renamed? Replaced, moved to
> extras, moved from extras, etc.
Well, an rpm that gets renamed either "Provides: oldname = ..." or is
gone and only appears in a new package as "Obsoletes: oldname".
Looks like somethings already been created:
http://people.redhat.com/jkeating/treediff2.py Someone needs to
sync up with Karsten and find out if this does everything thats
needed.
-Mike