> I'd be very interested in a simple tool that can do this against the new > repository metadata. I think it could be part of a tool-set for packagers > and sysadmins. There are some other basic tools that packagers and > sysadmins are currently lacking, like something to clean up > .rpmnew/.rpmsave mess, to backup a system based on what's different from > the rpmdb, a tool to reinstall a system that has been damaged or rooted, > etc... > > I've written some of these things for myself in Bash, but like to > reimplement and improve them using python and the python-rpm bindings. Two suggestions: 1. read yum-devel list - panu is working on a repoquery tool for the command line that could get information from a new metadata repository from the command line. 2. I would have much interest in helping develop an xml-rpc interfaced tool that uses the yum python module to retrieve lists of: - package updates/changes etc - local rpmdb status information - changed files (rpm -Va equivalence) - arbitrary query information. Let's take this over to the rpm-metadata list or the yum-devel list and see if we can get some new tools knocked out. Thanks -sv