There is no easy way to do this. We have the same issue and I'd think its a pretty basic use case!
>From memory, there is a compare API endpoint but that will only report on errata differences between two content view versions. We do this by grabbing all packages / puppet modules (as that's the two bits we're interested in) in the two content view versions and diff'ing. Its slow. Really slow - like 15 minutes or so slow. On Tuesday, August 1, 2017 at 12:59:02 AM UTC-4, Lachlan Musicman wrote: > > On 1 August 2017 at 14:14, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected] > <javascript:>> wrote: > >> Hola, >> >> Is there an easy way to get a comprehensive list of package changes >> between two CV versions or two Lifecycle Environment versions? >> >> I'm looking into the hammer help now, and have found >> http://projects.theforeman.org/issues/20046 >> <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fprojects.theforeman.org%2Fissues%2F20046&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNH_wK1hwk8FkYio5FsGU7oQLi2VxQ> >> which suggests that a per CV package list is available. I could wrap up a >> couple of those in a bash script I guess? >> >> I presumed this would be a solved problem - being able to report on what >> packages will change should the LCE be promoted to the new CV version. >> That's the actual problem I'm trying to solve - am I doing it wrong again? >> > > > After some banging away, I found this: > > hammer package list --organization-id 1 --content-view-id 25 > --content-view-version 25 --repository-id 2 > > returned a list, but only after I'd tried > > hammer package list --organization-id 1 --content-view-id 25 > > then > > hammer package list --organization-id 1 --content-view-id 25 > --content-view-version 25 > > It would be great to be able to iterate over the included repo versions > without necessarily needing to know what they were - so that > > hammer package list --organization-id 1 --content-view-id 25 > --content-view-version 25 > > returned a list of packages of all the repos in it? Am I missing something > simple? > > L. > > > ------ > "The antidote to apocalypticism is *apocalyptic civics*. Apocalyptic > civics is the insistence that we cannot ignore the truth, nor should we > panic about it. It is a shared consciousness that our institutions have > failed and our ecosystem is collapsing, yet we are still here — and we are > creative agents who can shape our destinies. Apocalyptic civics is the > conviction that the only way out is through, and the only way through is > together. " > > *Greg Bloom* @greggish > https://twitter.com/greggish/status/873177525903609857 > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Foreman users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/foreman-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
