On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 12:59:20PM -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> I have two VMs, or OS states I can `rpm -qa` on. Is there a script to
> diff the output of the two listings, and then query the package
> changelogs to generate an overall OS-wide changelog?
> 
> Use case: I generated an F26 OVA image using imagefactory 30 days ago,
> then I generated a new F26 image today. I'd export rpm -qa listings
> from both, and then get a changelog showing all the package updates,
> expecting to see the kernel package with the recent CVEs fixed.
> 
> Does such a tool exist?

virt-inspector can show the differences in packages installed
between two VMs (run it once on each VM and diff the output).

For more sophisticating diffing, use virt-diff:

  http://libguestfs.org/virt-diff.1.html

Rich.

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