Fedora has become fat!

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 22 Mar 2010 21:09:27 +0100, Christoph wrote:

> > > > 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)

Do you have the repodata for those days?
Then you could tweak /usr/bin/repodiff (from yum-utils) and make it
examine the changes more closely.