Release bumps in old branches

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 04 May 2006 01:39:19 +0200, Christian.Iseli at licr.org wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> ville.skytta at iki.fi said:
> > Checking for expected NEVR order between distro branches sounds like a job
> > for an automated script + public whinemail.  Does anyone happen to have such
> > a script or one that could be easily extended to do it already available? 
> 
> Shouldn't be too hard to add to my parseBZbugList script
> (http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/status-report-scripts/?root=fedora)
> as it already snarfs the SRPMS list of all repos.
>
> I won't have much time available to work on this before May 15, so feel free 
> to hack the script yourself if you like.

src.rpm packages don't suffice as you cannot access the Epoch without
taking a look at RPM header details. You would check only NVR, not NEVR.
Yum metadata is the way to go here, too.