Fedora has become fat!

Mike McGrath mmcgrath at redhat.com
Mon Mar 22 19:49:43 UTC 2010


On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Christoph Wickert wrote:

> Am Montag, den 22.03.2010, 09:13 -0400 schrieb Seth Vidal:
> >
> > On Mon, 22 Mar 2010, Peter Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 12:50 AM, Christoph Wickert wrote
> >
> > >> Any ideas what made Fedora become so fat or how to further investigate
> > >> this?
> > >
> > > I've found with Moblin and Sugar that one of the easiest/quickest but
> > > probably not the most eloquent way is to do a 'rpm -qa | sort >
> > > rpm-out' and then using some horrible diff hacking to get a rough idea
> > > of what's changed.
> >
> >
> > rpm -qa --qf "%{name}\n" | sort > rpm-out
> >
> > then you can diff the two more easily.
>
> I know how to use rpm, but as long as I don't have all the nightlies
> there is not much to compare. All I can compare is the F12 spin with the
> latest nightly and this wont tell me much about what happened in the
> meantime.
>
> Is there an easy way to get previous versions of a package if I have
> full n-v-r, say from koji?
>

You can compare F12's list with the current one.

	-Mike


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