RPM roadmapping

[Will Woods]

On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 21:31 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2007, Dimi Paun wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, 2007-07-27 at 15:40 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
> >> Or the other way around: what you always
> >> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
> >
> >  * Version control the meta-information
> >    This can't be efficiently done outside RPM, and it would provide
> >    an administrator with an invaluable tool (say a malfunction starts
> >    at about 4am):
> >      - what packages changes are different from yesterday?
> >      - what files have changed for package foo between version V and W?
> >      - what's the history of package foo on this system?
> >    Not very difficult, but quite useful. Every time something breaks
> >    on a system (usually via an automatic yum update) I would kill
> >    for the ability to run such queries.
> 
> Ah, something fresh for a change :) Most of the things that have come up 
> in this thread, well lets just say I'd been very surprised if they hadn't 
> come up.

I know I'm a bit late to the party here but let me second (read: "+1")
this idea. Having historical rpmdb info would be a huge boon for testing
as well as sysadmins: being able to show exactly which packages changed
(and when) would make it easier to implement all kinds of things. 

Example use case: Over the course of a week, Jake installs 25 new
packages. He starts up foo-client and it crashes - but it worked when he
started it last week! Jake wants to get a list of packages that were
updated in the past week and try rolling some of them back to their
previous versions.

Yeah, being able to have a "packages installed/updated in the last N
days" dialog, with "revert this change" buttons (and love/hate/add
comment for testing purposes etc.) would be completely awesome.

-w
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