On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Lucas Nussbaum <lu...@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote: > 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 >
Different problem domains. cruft compares the set of file paths on disk with the set of packaged file paths (and other expected files), whereas apt-diff compares the _content_ of packaged files. (It can list unexpected files if run with --no-ignore-extras, but that's not its intended purpose.) -- 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/aanlkti=9z=9fagrqspufuptanrevrto=j4=ttjyxo...@mail.gmail.com
