On 07/12/10 at 17:45 -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote: > (I'm not subscribed to this list, please CC me on replies.) > > I have recently written a tool I call "apt-diff" to compare filesystem > content against APT. It is intended for investigating problems where > packaged files get modified/deleted after installing them from APT > (e.g., by user customization, accidental deletion, etc.). I originally > wrote it after clobbering the packaged ALSA installation on my > computer with "make install" and needing a good way to detect which > packaged files had been modified so that I could restore them. I also > find it useful for figuring out what customizations I have made to my > system after I have forgotten about them. > > Conceptually apt-diff is meant to act like "svn diff", "git diff", > etc., except that instead of comparing to a source code repository it > compares to the APT repositories. I've designed it for processing many > files/packages in batch, so diff'ing the entire filesystem is doable. > It's sort of like an APT-aware version of debsums. The code is at > https://github.com/TristanSchmelcher/apt-diff > > My hope is for this to become part of the APT stack in Debian and I'm > posting here to see if there is any interest in that from the Debian > developer community. I think it might be helpful for it to be invoked > from reportbug to diagnose/triage issues where files or configurations > have been changed. Plus I think it's just a nice tool to have > available for power users.
Hi, How does it compare to the cruft package? - Lucas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101208070533.ga28...@xanadu.blop.info
