(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/deleted after installing them from APT (e.g., by user customization, accidental deletion, etc.). I originally wrote it after clobbering the packaged ALSA installation on my computer with "make install" and needing a good way to detect which packaged files had been modified so that I could restore them. I also find it useful for figuring out what customizations I have made to my system after I have forgotten about them.
Conceptually apt-diff is meant to act like "svn diff", "git diff", etc., except that instead of comparing to a source code repository it compares to the APT repositories. I've designed it for processing many files/packages in batch, so diff'ing the entire filesystem is doable. It's sort of like an APT-aware version of debsums. The code is at https://github.com/TristanSchmelcher/apt-diff My hope is for this to become part of the APT stack in Debian and I'm posting here to see if there is any interest in that from the Debian developer community. I think it might be helpful for it to be invoked from reportbug to diagnose/triage issues where files or configurations have been changed. Plus I think it's just a nice tool to have available for power users. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlkti=xrf33uwabvtcgxg1jdazubkuz77exf4g3y...@mail.gmail.com
