On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 08:25:21AM +0100, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> Be sure to use -qplv, so you get to see file permissions, ownerships and
> sizes.
Except dates and times will always change, so the case without -v is
nice to see too, so you only see missing/new files/paths in the diff
output.
This might be a nice alternative, for comparing everything but the
timestamps and file sizes of the binary rpms:
rpm -qplv file.rpm | awk '{print $1,$2,$3,$4,$8,$9}'
> 1. does not apply (short: DNA)
> 2. DNA / a diff against previous src.rpm content should be done
> 3. DNA
> 4. DNA
> 5. yes, necessary for the build system
> 6. DNA
> 7. DNA / not needed to "improve" old packages
> 8. DNA
> 9. DNA
> 10. DNA / completely unimportant for old package updates
> 11. for upgrades this would make rpmlint happy, nothing else
> 12. DNA for ordinary patch-work
> 13. DNA -"-
> 14. DNA / I wouldn't touch it in updates to old packages
> because SMP make flags can break the build
Agreed, with the addition of 15. ldd comparisons. A tool could be
written to perform the file and ldd diffs. The output could be
similar to rpm -V output (size, MD5 sum, permissions, type, owner,
group, timestamp) plus ldd/Requires diffs.
