>>>>> "RRS" == Ritesh Raj Sarraf <riteshsarraf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: RRS> Coming from the Debian world I wanted to ask one RRS> question. Doesn't the FC package manager allow you to have a look RRS> at the diff of your present config and the newconfig before the RRS> packages' installation? That would be somewhat antithetical to the concept of automatic updates, wouldn't it? I put this in ~/bin/rpmchanges and run it when I want to see what's changed. I was trying to copy functionality I found useful in IRIX. - J< #!/usr/bin/perl use Getopt::Std; getopts('dq'); $| = 1; @DIFF = qw(/usr/bin/diff -u); @LS = qw(/bin/ls -l); @configfiles = `rpm -qac`; for $i (@configfiles) { chomp $i; $old = -f "$i.rpmsave"; $new = -f "$i.rpmnew"; if ($old || $new) { # If running quietly, we can just exit the first time we see a difference if ($opt_q) { exit 1; } $package = `rpm -qf $i`; chomp $package; push @{$updates{$package}}, {file => $i, old => $old, new => $new, }; } } exit 0 unless %updates; for $package (sort keys %updates) { print "Updated files in package $package:\n"; for $i (@{$updates{$package}}) { if ($i->{old}) { show ($i->{file}, "$i->{file}.rpmsave"); } if ($i->{new}) { show ($i->{file}, "$i->{file}.rpmnew"); } } print "\n"; } exit 1; sub show { my($old, $new) = @_; print " " if $opt_d; system(@LS, $old); print " " if $opt_d; system(@LS, $new); if ($opt_d) { print "Differences:\n", "="x40, "\n"; system(@DIFF, $old, $new); print "="x40, "\n"; } }