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#165 rpmdistro-repoquery: a cross-distribution repoquery tool
Closed: scheduled by rlengland. Opened by rlengland.

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Article Summary:
Showcase rpmdistro-repoquery and how it can be used to do repoqueries on other RPM-based distributions from the comfort of one’s distribution of choice

Article Description:
rpmdistro-repoquery is a tool that ships with repository definitions for various RPM-based distribution (currently Fedora, CentOS, RHEL UBI, Mageia, and several SUSE variants).

This article will showcase how it can be used to simplify doing package operations across multiple distributions (e.g. checking if an update for one of the CentOS Stream servers you manage has hit the mirrors) without having to SSH into one of the hosts (or start a container or VM).

In particular, it will discuss how ebranch uses it to be able to compare the package sets available in Rawhide vs EPEL for the purpose of branching.

I plan to end with an invitation to the community to contribute additional repos to rpmdistro-repoquery for any distribution we don’t currently support, and/or contribute fixes and improvements.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/article-proposal-rpmdistro-repoquery-a-cross-distribution-repoquery-tool/46426

Metadata Update from @rlengland:
- Issue tagged with: article, needs-image

Here's the article for review: https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=37838&action=edit

The preview looks a bit weird to me, esp trying to get < and > from code blocks actually displayed correctly; could use help from someone more familiar with Wordpress here. Thanks!

Metadata Update from @rlengland:
- Custom field preview-link adjusted to https://fedoramagazine.org/wp-admin/post.php?post=37838&action=edit

@salimma: Do you have any suggestions for a cover image? Anything with a license that allows us to edit and re-share it is fine (e.g. CC0). You can pick something from https://unsplash.com/ if you want. Or you can leave it to us.

Thanks!

Suggestion for feature image.

rpmdistro-repoquery.png

If suitable, let me know and I'll add it to the article.

Metadata Update from @glb:
- Custom field editor adjusted to glb
- Custom field image-editor adjusted to rlengland
- Custom field publish adjusted to 2023-02-24

Issue status updated to: Closed (was: Open)
Issue close_status updated to: scheduled
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