On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 21:31 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Dimi Paun wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:40 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > >> Or the other way around: what you always > >> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind? > > > > * Version control the meta-information > > This can't be efficiently done outside RPM, and it would provide > > an administrator with an invaluable tool (say a malfunction starts > > at about 4am): > > - what packages changes are different from yesterday? > > - what files have changed for package foo between version V and W? > > - what's the history of package foo on this system? > > Not very difficult, but quite useful. Every time something breaks > > on a system (usually via an automatic yum update) I would kill > > for the ability to run such queries. > > Ah, something fresh for a change :) Most of the things that have come up > in this thread, well lets just say I'd been very surprised if they hadn't > come up. I know I'm a bit late to the party here but let me second (read: "+1") this idea. Having historical rpmdb info would be a huge boon for testing as well as sysadmins: being able to show exactly which packages changed (and when) would make it easier to implement all kinds of things. Example use case: Over the course of a week, Jake installs 25 new packages. He starts up foo-client and it crashes - but it worked when he started it last week! Jake wants to get a list of packages that were updated in the past week and try rolling some of them back to their previous versions. Yeah, being able to have a "packages installed/updated in the last N days" dialog, with "revert this change" buttons (and love/hate/add comment for testing purposes etc.) would be completely awesome. -w
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