Bug 478697

Summary: RFE: Be able to find packages with NVR greater than that in repo(s)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Bruno Wolff III <bruno>
Component: yum-utilsAssignee: Seth Vidal <skvidal>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: beland, james.antill, pmatilai, tim.lauridsen
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Script to show newer packages than are in rawhide none

Description Bruno Wolff III 2009-01-03 17:58:53 UTC 
Description of problem:
Currently there have been some issues with packages having a higher NVR in F10 + Updates + Updates-testing than in rawhide blocking yum updates in ways that skip broken couldn't handle. Being able to easily find those packages would be useful. Using package-cleanup --orphans before the update will have too many false positives. After the update it works for clean up, but that doesn't help when the update is blocked and you need to figure out what might be blocking it.

What would be nice is to be able to point yum-utils at rawhide and then have it report any installed packages that have a higher NVR than the same package in the repo(s) it is pointed to. This would help focus fixing things on a small set of packages.

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Comment 1 James Antill 2009-01-04 18:52:28 UTC 
Created attachment 328149 [details]
Script to show newer packages than are in rawhide

I thougyht skvidal was working on something that did this with bodhi/koji trees, so we could tell things like "is anything in F9 newer than what is in F10" ... but anyway, this does what I think we/you want for current => rawhide.
On my F9 box it just gives:

% ../yum-newer-than-rawhide.py
Loaded plugins: post-transaction-actions
Newer Packages
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.x86_64                   1.3.0-2.fc9                installed


which seems to be true:

Installed Packages
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.x86_64            1.3.0-2.fc9                installed       
Available Packages
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.x86_64            1.3.0-1.20081222git.fc11   rawhide         
xorg-x11-drv-mouse.x86_64            1.3.0-2.fc9                fedora          
xorg-x11-drv-mouse-debuginfo.x86_64  1.3.0-2.fc9                fedora-debuginfo
Comment 2 James Antill 2010-04-29 22:47:14 UTC 
Note that with the latest yum in rawhide you can now do:

yum distro-sync

...which will tell you what is "different" and will probably just dtrt. anyway if you hit yes.