Compare .deb file to filesystem
This would be very easy to implement, so I thought I'd see if anyone else has already done it. I'd like a utility which takes a .deb file, another version of which is already installed. It checks (presumably by file size and md5sum) for all differences between the files on the file system, and the files in the deb, and lists them. I know debsums does part of this job, but AIUI only if the .deb contains md5sums information. This would be a useful tool for a maintainer with a complex package (I have an internal one here in mind) which he has been forced to edit the files 'in-place' to fix problems, and wishes to get a list of all files he edited. Does this exist? Jules
Re: Compare .deb file to filesystem
I know debsums does part of this job, but AIUI only if the .deb contains md5sums information. This would be a useful tool for a maintainer with a complex package (I have an internal one here in mind) which he has been forced to edit the files 'in-place' to fix problems, and wishes to get a list of all files he edited. Does this exist? How close is debsums to what you want? It's close --- that's why I mentioned it --- but it requires the .deb to have md5sum information. This shouldn't be necessary, it should be simple enough to dpkg-deb -x the deb, then go through each file, comparing size and then contents (with `cmp'). Jules -- Jules Bean |Any sufficiently advanced [EMAIL PROTECTED]| technology is indistinguishable [EMAIL PROTECTED] | from a perl script
