Feature Request: User's would like to get a report of which packages need to be updated on a consumer and probably consumer groups. This could be provided by adding a flag to package (install, update, remove) operations that would indicate the transaction is not to be commited (is a "dry run"). This approach would support a wide range of use cases including this one. We'd need to expose this flag in the pulp agent, manager layer, REST API layer and CLI. The gofer package plugin already supports an "apply" flag which creates the YUM transaction but does not execute it.
just some thoughts
please ignore my previous comment. I had no real coherent thoughts and decided to just add myself to the CC instead. if and when you discuss how to implement this please let me know, would like to be part of any discussions.
I think this is a duplicate based on a recent bug filed by Katello asking for this view. I aligned this bug to sprint 43 when that other one is aligned to (didn't look it up, we can address it in sprint 43) and we will likely close this out as a duplicate.
Closing as a duplicate. This functionality is available with the fix to 877061. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 877061 ***