On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch <jarau...@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote: > Hi, > > I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- > to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. > > Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- > kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. > > On the other machine there is no problem. > > How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. > > Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in > /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of > thousands of files in these directories.
You could use rsync with –dry-run to tell you what's different (without actually transferring any files), or you could perhaps use diff over ssh to compare a whole tree at once.
