Bug 665920

Created attachment 470892 [details]
Test connection on arguments passed

Patch Proposed for connection test.

Created attachment 470989 [details]
--nocache option

Hello, 

I wrote a small patch to refresh metadata cache. 

Patch Proposed: --nocache option to refresh metadata cache. 


$>git clone git://yum.baseurl.org/yum-utils.git
Cloning into yum-utils...
remote: Counting objects: 4847, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (2857/2857), done.
remote: Total 4847 (delta 3177), reused 3003 (delta 1978)
Receiving objects: 100% (4847/4847), 787.44 KiB | 281 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (3177/3177), done.
$> cd yum-utils/
$> patch -p0 < ../repodiff-upstream-connection-test.patch 
patching file repodiff.py
$> patch -p0 < ../repodiff-upstream-nocache-option.patch 
patching file repodiff.py
Hunk #2 succeeded at 38 (offset 2 lines).
Hunk #3 succeeded at 187 (offset 27 lines).
Hunk #4 succeeded at 217 (offset 27 lines).

$> ./repodiff.py --old=http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/source/SRPMS/ --new=http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/releases/13/Fedora/source/SRPMS/ --new=http://mirror.optus.net/fedora/linux/updates/13/SRPMS/ > /tmp/f13.diff
*Note* Red Hat Network repositories are not listed below. You must run this command as root to access RHN repositories.
$> ./repodiff.py --old=http://doesnotexist.example.com/ --new=http://doesnotexist.example.com --new=http://reallydoesnotexist.example.com 
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, langpacks, presto, rhnplugin
Adding en_US to language list
*Note* Red Hat Network repositories are not listed below. You must run this command as root to access RHN repositories.
setting up repos
setting up old repo http://doesnotexist.example.com/
Connection Error: doesnotexist.example.com not reachable

$> ./repodiff.py --help
Usage: 
    repodiff: take 2 or more repositories and return a list of added, removed and changed
              packages.
              
    repodiff --old=old_repo_baseurl --new=new_repo_baseurl 

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -n NEW, --new=NEW     new baseurl[s] for repos
  -o OLD, --old=OLD     old baseurl[s] for repos
  -q, --quiet           
  -a ARCHLIST, --archlist=ARCHLIST
                        In addition to src.rpms, any arch you want to include
  -s, --size            Output size changes for any new->old packages
  --simple              output simple format
  --nocache             Remove metadata cache dir

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