In April, I got a new laptop B to replace the old one A that I had been using up to that point; A and B run Fedora 6 and 8 respectively. I would like to retire the Fedora installation on A. I have already copied off my home directory, /usr/local, and so forth, but A also has scattered local customizations (modified/added configuration files, etc.), some of which I might want to repeat on B at some point. I am looking for a comprehensive way to find all the customized files so I can save them in a tarball or something to review later. Fedora is RPM-based, so I am essentially looking for all interesting files (e.g., most stuff in /var is not interesting) that don't match the set of installed RPMs.
How should I go about finding these files? I have been thinking about writing a powerful RPM verification / customization management tool that would be able to do this among other things; does such a tool already exist? I would appreciate any advice. Matt
