DNF4-REPODIFF(8)

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💅 DNF4-REPODIFF(8) — dnf-plugins-core, bestie edition 💅

okay so this is dnf4-repodiff, straight out of your dnf-plugins-core era. it's the DNF repodiff Plugin, and it's here to spill the tea on what changed between repos 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

dnf4-repodiff — the DNF repodiff Plugin, no cap. its whole job: display a list of differences between two or more repositories. that's it, that's the vibe 💖

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

dnf repodiff [<options>]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

repodiff is a program that literally lists the differences between two sets of repositories. simple, iconic, does what it says on the tin ✨

heads up bestie: by default it only compares source packages. so if you're like "where are my binaries??" — that's why. keep reading, there's a flag for that 😭

🎀 Options 🎀

all the general DNF options are accepted too — go peek at Options in dnf(8) for the full rundown, iykyk.

  • --repo-old=<repoid>, -o <repoid> — adds a <repoid> as an old repository. fun fact: you can totally use this together with the --repofrompath option. and yes, you can specify it multiple times — stack 'em up 💅
  • --repo-new=<repoid>, -n <repoid> — adds a <repoid> as a new repository. also repeatable, can be specified multiple times 🌈
  • --archlist=<arch>, -a <arch> — adds architectures, which switches you off the default of only comparing source packages. and yes, you can use the wildcard "*" to mean all architectures, slay. can be specified multiple times 👑
  • --size, -s — outputs extra data about the size of the changes. numbers! love that for us 🍓
  • --compare-arch — normally packages are just compared based on their name, but this flag makes the comparison also use the arch. so foo.noarch and foo.x86_64 get treated as different packages. periodt 💀
  • --simple — outputs a simple one-line message for modified packages. short and sweet 🎀
  • --downgrade — splits the data for modified packages between upgraded and downgraded packages. so you can tell which way things went 🙈

🔥 EXAMPLES 🔥

compare source pkgs in two local repos:

dnf repodiff --repofrompath=o,/tmp/repo-old --repofrompath=n,/tmp/repo-new --repo-old=o --repo-new=n

compare x86_64 compat. binary pkgs in two remote repos, and two local one:

dnf repodiff --repofrompath=o,http://example.com/repo-old --repofrompath=n,http://example.com/repo-new --repo-old=o --repo-new=n --archlist=x86_64

compare x86_64 compat. binary pkgs, but also compare architecture:

dnf repodiff --repofrompath=o,http://example.com/repo-old --repofrompath=n,http://example.com/repo-new --repo-old=o --repo-new=n --archlist=x86_64 --compare-arch

👑 AUTHOR 👑

see AUTHORS in your Core DNF Plugins distribution 🫶

2026, Red Hat, Licensed under GPLv2+

k that's the whole page bestie, go diff some repos 💖✨

version 4.7.0 — dated Aug 10, 2026 — mwah, bye 🎀🦋

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