Fedora has become fat!

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Mon Mar 22 20:09:27 UTC 2010


Am Montag, den 22.03.2010, 14:49 -0500 schrieb Mike McGrath:
> 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.

Sure, but this wont help me understand what happened between 
2009-11-11 and 2009-11-19 (+22 MB LXDE, +17 MB Xfce) or between
2010-01-05 and 2010-01-09 (+18 MB LXDE, +14 MB Xfce)

> 	-Mike

Regards,
Christoph



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