On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 3:00 PM, Tristan Schmelcher
wrote:
>>> See also dpkg-query -f '${Conffiles}' -W .
>>
>> Aha! It gets them from /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should be easy to tap into.
>>
>>
>
> I've changed apt-diff to make use of this, and it has improved speed
> by 25% when diff'ing my entire f
>> See also dpkg-query -f '${Conffiles}' -W .
>
> Aha! It gets them from /var/lib/dpkg/status. Should be easy to tap into.
>
>
I've changed apt-diff to make use of this, and it has improved speed
by 25% when diff'ing my entire filesystem! Takes only 6 minutes now.
:)
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On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 01:41:38 -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [brian m. carlson]
> > IIRC, the reason md5sums of conffiles are shipped is to determine
> > whether they have been changed by the administrator so that dpkg
> > knows whether to automatically replace them with newer versions or
>
Tristan Schmelcher writes:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
> wrote:
>> Osamu Aoki writes:
>>
>>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:30:02PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > "Note that this information is redundant" - that's rich. As though
> > the entire md5sums file weren't redundant. (I.e., could easily be
> > generated at unpack time.) People seem to hold on to their reasons
> > why it's imp
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 10:30:02PM -0600, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> [Osamu Aoki]
> > As I read manpage of dh_md5sums, it states:
> >-x, --include-conffiles
> >Include conffiles in the md5sums list. Note that this
> > information is redundant since it is included elsewhere in debi
> The *.conffiles files in /var/lib/dpkg/info have the checksums of all
Don't seem to ...
$ cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles | head
/etc/a2ps.cfg
/etc/a2ps-site.cfg
/etc/emacs/site-start.d/50a2ps.el
/etc/bash_completion.d/ack-grep
/etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
/etc/acpi/powerbtn.sh
/etc/init/acpid.
[Osamu Aoki]
> As I read manpage of dh_md5sums, it states:
>-x, --include-conffiles
>Include conffiles in the md5sums list. Note that this
> information is redundant since it is included elsewhere in debian
> packages.
"Note that this information is redundant" - that's rich.
Osamu Aoki writes:
> As I read manpage of dh_md5sums, it states:
>-x, --include-conffiles
>Include conffiles in the md5sums list. Note that this
> information is redundant since it is included elsewhere in debian
> packages.
> I have no idea what this is.
The *.conffiles fil
HI,
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:02:44PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
> wrote:
> > Osamu Aoki writes:
> >
> >> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tr
On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 11:12 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Osamu Aoki writes:
>
>> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
>>> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
>>>
Osamu Aoki writes:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
>> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
>> > wrote:
>> > > Tristan Schmelcher writes:
>> > >>> how does it deal
On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 12:06:45AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
> > wrote:
> > > Tristan Schmelcher writes:
> > >>> how does it deal with configurations generated
Hi,
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 12:52:28PM -0800, Tristan Schmelcher wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow
> wrote:
> > Tristan Schmelcher writes:
> >>> how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall?
> I find debsums to be too basic for my needs. apt-diff is
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:05 PM, Lucas Nussbaum
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 inve
On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Tristan Schmelcher
wrote:
>> Isn't debsums already filling that nieche?
>>
>> MfG
>> Goswin
>>
>
> I find debsums to be too basic for my needs. apt-diff is my attempt to
> improve upon it. I often want to answer the question "how does package
> X on my machin
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Tristan Schmelcher writes:
>
>>> how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall?
>>
>> Only files shipped by a package (i.e., appear in its .list file) can be
>> diff'ed, so if a configuration file was generated from sc
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/delete
Tristan Schmelcher writes:
>> how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall?
>
> Only files shipped by a package (i.e., appear in its .list file) can be
> diff'ed, so if a configuration file was generated from scratch in a
> postinst then apt-diff can't show a diff for it. But it
> how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall?
Only files shipped by a package (i.e., appear in its .list file) can be
diff'ed, so if a configuration file was generated from scratch in a
postinst then apt-diff can't show a diff for it. But it does keep track
of how many files it
Hello,
> I also
> find it useful for figuring out what customizations I have made to my
> system after I have forgotten about them.
how does it deal with configurations generated in postinstall?
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