On Fri, 2007-03-02 at 12:07 -0800, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 20:27 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > On 2/28/07, Michael Schwendt <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > It's called "to mess around in a system". Admins, who do that, often > > > forget what files they've changed, and "rpm -Va" only reports the changed > > > checksum, not a diff. > > > > Hmmm, how much secret sauce would it take to make it easy to get a > > diff of changes for scripts files which fail an rpm -V check. Probably > > not really worth the pain of attempting to kludge together. > > > > -jef"goes off to sandwhich yumdownloader, rpm -V, rpm2cpio and diff > > together inside a delicious perl wrapper"spaleta > > > Luke Macken, Will Woods, and I were talking about something just a > little less ambitious at FudCON. Just keeping a history of config > files. Here's a bit of a hack that could get you started. The one > glaring problem that I see with it is that it doesn't keep a copy of the > original file. ie: When I want to see the change, I probably want a > diff3 between the original file, my modified file, and the file rpm is > going to install. Without the original, I can only see the changes > between my modified file and the new one. The last time this discussion came up, I suggested someone just go steal code and/or ideas from Gentoo's etc-update, and no one seems to have done so. It's not like this is a new problem. - ajax -- Fedora-maintainers mailing list Fedora-maintainers@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers -- Fedora-maintainers-readonly mailing list Fedora-maintainers-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-maintainers-readonly
