Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 478697
RFE: Be able to find packages with NVR greater than that in repo(s)
Last modified: 2014-01-21 18:07:45 EST
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. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
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
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.