REPOMANAGE(1)

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version 4.10.1 · 12 versions
, in opensuse-leap 16.0

✨ NAME ✨

okay so welcome to REPOMANAGE(1), bestie! 💖 repomanage — redirecting to DNF repomanage Plugin. Its whole thing is: manage a repository or a simple directory of rpm packages. Periodt.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dnf repomanage [<optional-options>] [<options>] <path>

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

repomanage prints newest or older packages in a repository specified by <path>, and it does this for easy piping to xargs or similar programs. ✨

If <path> doesn't contain a valid repodata, it is searched for rpm packages which are then used instead. If the repodata are present, repomanage uses them as the source of truth — it doesn't verify that they match the present rpm packages. In fact, repomanage can run with just the repodata, no rpm packages are needed. 💅

In order to work correctly with modular packages, <path> has to contain repodata with modular metadata. If modular content is present, repomanage prints packages from newest or older stream versions in addition to newest or older non-modular packages. 🌈

🎀 Options 🎀

All general DNF options are accepted — see Options in dnf(8) for details. 👀

These options set what packages are displayed. These options are mutually exclusive, i.e. only one can be specified. If no option is specified, the newest packages are shown. 💖

  • --old — show older packages (for a package or a stream show all versions except the newest one).
  • --oldonly — show older packages (same as --old, but exclude the newest packages even when it's included in the older stream versions).
  • --new — show newest packages.

The following options control how packages are displayed in the output:

  • -s, --space — print resulting set separated by space instead of newline.
  • -k <keep-number>, --keep <keep-number> — limit the resulting set to newest <keep-number> packages.

💅 EXAMPLES 💅

Display newest packages in current repository (directory):

dnf repomanage --new .

Display 2 newest versions of each package in "home" directory:

dnf repomanage --new --keep 2 ~/

Display oldest packages separated by space in current repository (directory):

dnf repomanage --old --space .

🫶 AUTHOR 🫶

See AUTHORS in your Core DNF Plugins distribution.

2014, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+.

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