Hi. I'm an unsponsored, aspiring Extras contributor and author of Yumdiff, a tool to help quickly determine and resolve differences in the software installed on two Fedora machines. I submitted a review request, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206478, and after the initial round of corrections to my packaging, there have been suggestions made concerning Yumdiff's functionality. I've refined Yumdiff somewhat in response to this, and the suggestion was made to solicit feedback from the Extras and Yum communities with regard to Yumdiff's potential niche in the greater ecosystem. My primary questions are these: 1. Yumdiff scratched my itch, namely to quickly compare machines to achieve software parity. It was born in a data center composed of machines that change roles on a semi-regular basis. Does it scratch anyone else's itch? 2. If this is a useful itch to have scratched, is Yumdiff the best way to scratch it? 2a. Might this functionality be better included in Yum? 3. If 1==yes, 2==yes and 2a==no, are there any other features that should be included in Yumdiff? I'm contemplating/playing around with a feature that would use screen on the local machine to allow remotely updating multiple machines to match the local machine, as well as a "supercompare" mode which would allow updating the local machine to include a superset of the packages on multiple remote machines. Are these attractive, or would they be a step toward feature bloat? I'm open to any and all suggestions, and am looking forward to a frank dialog with all interested parties. Thank you, Jon Ciesla -- novus ordo absurdum -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
