On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 19:32:34 +0100, Paul Cager wrote:
> I would like to be able to create a list of all of the configuration
> files I have changed / created since installation. Mainly to make it
> easy if I wanted to rebuild my system from scratch.
>
> I can get a list of installed packages easily enough (dpkg-query).
> I can use the cruft package to find files I have added to /etc (and
> other places if necessary).
>
> But I'm not sure of the best way to generate a list of files I have
> changed. I could use "dpkg --contents" for each package to get a list of
> files in the package and compare timestamps/sizes. But this only works
> if the ".deb" files are still in /var/cache/apt/archives. Is there a
> better way, such as cached MD5 sums somewhere?
The md5sums are in /var/lib/dpkg/info as "packagename.md5sums".
"packagename.conffiles" (if present for packagename) lists all the
configuration files; that might save you from calculating md5sums
unnecessarily.
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Regards,
Florian
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