EPEL Meeting: Last Call for topics for 2008-03-26
Stephen John Smoogen
smooge at gmail.com
Mon Mar 24 22:58:24 UTC 2008
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 4:35 PM, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 5:34 PM, Michael Stahnke <mastahnke at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I probably won't make the meeting.
> >
> > > RHEL Meta Data
> > As I tried to explain in the past, this is difficult, because it's an
> > unknown target. Some people want full search capabilities of RHN, and
> > we can't easily provide that. For most cases, however, repoquery and
> > yum give enough good information.
> > The most common use cases I see are:
> > * What's the version of package XYZ in RHEL? (Use yum/repoquery)
> > * Is package XYZ included in RHEL? (Use yum/repoquery)
> > * What are the differences in packages between CentOS and RHEL ? (
> > http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.1/#head-bcaed48ff64328cc23cbef681289c5d8ae7efa05)
> >
> > More obscure cases
> > * What package provides lib-XYZ?
> > * How do I see the changelog for packages? (Repoquery again)
> > * Is package foo included in other Red Hat channel other than base
> > RHEL. (This one is a bit harder).
> > * What packages are coming up in RHEL version X.Y+1 that will
> > obsolete EPEL packages? (again, not a clear way)
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > stahnma
> >
>
> Basically, if we could put a really nice front end on repoquery, most
> problems would be easily solved. I think some of the issues are not
> everyone having an EL box to build upon.
Does the equivalent of the old 'comps' rpm give equivalent information?
And thanks for the update.
--
Stephen J Smoogen. -- CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
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