On 10/19/06, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> 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
