pkgtreediff
pkgtreediff
compares the NVRs (name-version-release) of RPM packages in OS package trees and/or installations:
- An OS tree can be referenced by an url or directory containing a tree of rpm files.
- A file containing a list(s) of rpm NVRs can also be compared.
- Commands can also be used to get installed RPMs, eg:
"rpm -qa"
"ssh myhost rpm -qa"
"podman run --rm myimage rpm -qa"
- A koji tag: koji://tag@KojiHubUrl (or koji://tag@fedora)
Usage examples
Containers
Compare the content of two rpm based containers versions,
filtering for new added packages:
$ pkgtreediff --new "podman run --rm fedora:34 rpm -qa" "podman run --rm fedora:35 rpm -qa"
libfsverity-1.4-4.fc35.x86_64
mpdecimal-2.5.1-2.fc35.x86_64
Package trees
Package source changes between Fedora 33 and 34 Server at GA (ignoring release bumps):
$ pkgtreediff --ignore-release https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/{33,34}/Server/source/tree/Packages/
ModemManager.src: 1.14.2-1.fc33 -> 1.14.10-2.fc34
NetworkManager.src: 1.26.2-2.fc33 -> 1.30.2-1.fc34
PackageKit.src: 1.2.1-1.fc33 -> 1.2.3-1.fc34
abrt.src: 2.14.4-6.fc33 -> 2.14.5-2.fc34
:
bash.src: 5.0.17-2.fc33 -> 5.1.0-2.fc34
bash-completion.src: 2.8-9.fc33 -> 2.11-2.fc34
- bcache-tools-1.0.8-19.fc33.src
bcm283x-firmware.src: 20201008-2.63b1922.fc33 -> 20210407-1.8c7c524.fc34
bind.src: 9.11.23-1.fc33 -> 9.16.11-5.fc34
binutils.src: 2.35-10.fc33 -> 2.35.1-41.fc34
:
cockpit.src: 229-1.fc33 -> 241-1.fc34
colord.src: 1.4.4-5.fc33 -> 1.4.5-2.fc34
+ compsize-1.5-1.fc34.src
conmon.src: 2.0.21-3.fc33 -> 2.0.27-1.fc34
container-selinux.src: 2.145.0-1.fc33 -> 2.158.0-1.gite78ac4f.fc34
containernetworking-plugins.src: 0.8.7-1.fc33 -> 0.9.1-4.fc34
+ containers-common-1-13.fc34.src
- copy-jdk-configs-3.7-7.fc33.src
- createrepo_c-0.15.11-4.fc33.src
+ criu-3.15-3.fc34.src
crun.src: 0.15-5.fc33 -> 0.18-5.fc34
:
:
vim.src: 8.2.1770-1.fc33 -> 8.2.2637-1.fc34
+ vulkan-loader-1.2.162.0-2.fc34.src
wayland.src: 1.18.0-2.fc33 -> 1.19.0-1.fc34
webkit2gtk3.src: 2.30.1-1.fc33 -> 2.32.0-2.fc34
wget.src: 1.20.3-8.fc33 -> 1.21.1-2.fc34
:
zchunk.src: 1.1.5-3.fc33 -> 1.1.9-2.fc34
zstd.src: 1.4.5-5.fc33 -> 1.4.9-1.fc34
Summary
Updated: 330
Downgraded: 0
Added: 63
Deleted: 98
Arch changed: 0
Total packages: 932 -> 897
Hosts
Compare the packages on local and another host:
pkgtreediff "rpm -qa" "ssh otherhost rpm -qa"
Any types of sources can be compared, together with the use of flags.
Koji
Compare koji tags using the koji://tag@kojihub
syntax:
pkgtreediff koji://dist-c8-updates-build@centos koji://dist-c8_1-updates-build@centos
Please avoid using koji tag to compare full releases as it is more efficient to
query URL or CMD trees.
Builds
pkgtreediff is packaged in Fedora.
Older builds are also available in
copr
for Fedora, EPEL, and OpenSuSE
(more details).
RPM version ordering
pkgtreediff use the rpm-nvr
library implementation of the rpmvercmp()
algorithm,
though it has not been verified to behave identically.
RPM version ordering is somewhat involved
https://blog.jasonantman.com/2014/07/how-yum-and-rpm-compare-versions/.
For example “1.2.1~rc1” < “1.2.1” (greater for ^).