[Fedora-infrastructure-list] Fwd: Quick project for doc's

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:56:08 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:

> On 10/19/06, Mike Canann wrote:
>
> > Where do you get the list of packages for a FC release? And what is the
> > format of that list?

Best would be local on-disk access to all the repository trees you need,
since for some features you need access to more than the package file
names.

A good start would be to compare Yum metadata of multiple repositories,
e.g. fedora-core-5-i386 and fedora-core-development-i386, but for
examining some details in the RPM package headers, you need to
download copies of the headers (e.g. for Obsoletes etc.)

> You'll have to talk to Karsten for that information.  Your best bet is
> to try to catch him in the #fedora-docs channel on freenode (quaid).
> This is actually a tricky project with tricky logic because of things
> like, what do you do if a package gets renamed?  Replaced, moved to
> extras, moved from extras, etc.

Well, an rpm that gets renamed either "Provides: oldname = ..."  or is
gone and only appears in a new package as "Obsoletes: oldname".