Razor is a research project in package management to explore the benefits of combining higher level dependency solving (yum) and management of installed packages (rpm) into one tool with a efficient, custom storage backend.
novi is a tool for finding the latest-version RPMs in a tree. You can use it to create Kickstart trees or yum repos that contain the updated RPMS. In the case of Kickstart, this means machines come to life with the updates already applied. Using novi for