Re: slinkcd v 0.95 m68k & Alpha organization
On Wed 30 Dec 1998, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> James Troup writes:
> >
> >Hmm; how does what your doing differ from Paul's diff (if that's the
> >correct name, I forget, sorry) or Quinn diff
> >(http://quinn-diff.nocrew.org/)?
>
> I'm not sure what you two are doing, exactly. I noticed that the m68k and
You can have a look at the current output of paul's diff (that's as
far as I got as far as naming it is concerned :) at
ftp://ftp.murphy.nl/pub/debian/alpha/diff ; the perl script used to
generate it is available in the same directory.
It basically compares the contents of the Packages files, including
versions. There is first a list of packages not at all compiled yet,
then a list of out of date packages. This is taking into account
the packages that are to be ignored (i386-specific) and equivalencies
(libc6 on i386 == libc6.1 on alpha, for example).
> >[Uh, okay, I don't bother running quinn diff on anything other than
> >main for religious reasons, but even so...]
>
> So I presume the quinn diff lists any differences including versions?
Yes. I only made my script because I find the output easier to read.
YMMV. It also makes note of any alpha .debs in Incoming on master,
so that it's obvious which packages need porting and which packages have
been ported but not yet installed.
Paul Slootman
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