[Tutor] Permission Report

2007-10-07 Thread Stephen Nelson-Smith 
Hello all,

I have a tree of code on a machine which has been tweaked and fiddled
with over several months, and which passes tests.

I have the same codebase in a new virtual machine.  A shell hack[0]
shows me that the permissions are very different between the two.

I could use rsync or something to synchronise them, but I would like
to produce a report of the sort:

Change file: foo from 755 to 775

So I can try to work out why this is necessary.

I'm not sure how best to proceed - I guess walk through the filesystem
gathering info using stat, then do the same on the new system, and
compare.

Or are there some clever modules I could use?

S.
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Re: [Tutor] Permission Report

2007-10-07 Thread Alan Gauld 

Stephen Nelson-Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

 I could use rsync or something to synchronise them, but I would like
 to produce a report of the sort:

 Change file: foo from 755 to 775

 I'm not sure how best to proceed - I guess walk through the 
 filesystem
 gathering info using stat, then do the same on the new system, and
 compare.

Yes, os.walk and os.stat should do what you want.

There is a dircmp module that may do what you want but I've not
used it.

Alan G 


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Re: [Tutor] Permission Report

2007-10-07 Thread Kent Johnson 
Alan Gauld wrote:
 There is a dircmp module that may do what you want but I've not
 used it.

It was deprecated in Python 2.0 and removed in 2.5. From a quick look it 
might provide a useful framework but it doesn't compare permissions.

Kent
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