Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 13:22:02 -0500,
Gerry Reno <greno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Well, what I was hoping was that there was a tool that could install the
original RPM into a sandbox and then compare the differences between the
sandbox install and the existing installation and report the differences.
The problem that I'm trying to solve is inevitably we make changes to
installations due to many reasons; bug fixes, config changes, security
patches, etc. Then when we want to upgrade to a later version of that
installation we don't always know exactly what has been changed in the
installation since we first installed it. I looking for a way to see
all changes in the installation, whether to original files or newly
added files, as compared to the original RPM.
You may simply want to write a script to do this comparison, or dump the
contents of those 2 commands :
# rpm -ql yourpackage > file1
# rpm -ql yourpackage.xxx.rpm > file2
and compare the 2 outputs with a tool like 'meld' or with emacs
If you want to install an RPM file into a sandbox, that's easily done with :
# rpm2cpio foo.rpm | cpio -id
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