http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/i386/repodata/

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 21:37 -0400, Eric R. Meyers wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
> 
> I downloaded:
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/386/
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/386/repodata/
> http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/386/repodata/repoview
> 
> Just to get a better repoview. : )
> 
> Repoview's current tally of 1271 packages is incorrect.  The actual count 
> should be 1107.

the repository metadata count shows as 1271 - which is where repoview
gets the numbers from.

If you take a complete list of pkgs from the repo and remove out the
debuginfo and src.rpms you end up with 1271 individual packages. 


> Run this perl script in http://fedoraproject.org/extras/4/386/ directory, and 
> it will point you to the files that have multiple versions stored there.  
> When it doesn't output anything you're done.

why on earth would you do anything in perl :)

yum install yum-utils

repomanage -o /some/path

that will list all the old packages in the repository that could be
removed.

-sv