On 07/01/11 at 08:50pm, alberto fuentes wrote: > On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 8:03 PM, William Hopkins <we.hopk...@gmail.com>wrote: > > > On 07/01/11 at 09:44am, alberto fuentes wrote: > > > This would be handy to checkout messed up systems to be able to tell > > apart > > > easily whats has been touched. > > > > > > Is there already something that makes this? > > > > comparing dpkg --get-selections before and after is an easy way to see what > > new > > packages have been installed, which have been upgraded, etc. But you > > *should* > > be paying attention during the upgrade process. > > > > dpkg will already prompt you to view a diff of a config file that is to be > > changed if you have a modified version installed. > > > > If you need anything more granular than this, perhaps install tripwire. > > > > I think you misunderstood what I was asking. > > I wanted to check out the diff from the configuration file of a package from > both its versions, installed and original packaged, to be able to tell whats > been touched (added + deleted) :)
IF you've modified your local version and the file being installed by the deb is a conffile, apt/dpkg will prompt you to overwrite, and one of your options will be to view a diff. -- Liam
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