Re: Compare .deb file to filesystem
On Mon, Aug 21, 2000 at 01:42:16PM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> 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?
How close is debsums to what you want?
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