Idea: new verb: pkg diff pkgname

Open infracaninophile opened this issue 11 years ago • 3 comments

It would be useful to be able to display exactly what the on-disk changes are between a pkg in a repo and what is installed on disk. This command should:

Compare the files in the two packages showing files as either 'to add', 'to remove', 'modified' or 'unchanged' for file content, plus flag up changes in permissions, ownership.
Compare the package metadata showing changes in eg. OPTIONS similarly.

$infracaninophile avatar$ Dec 05 '14 09:12 infracaninophile

Less pain to implement this via external perl (for example) script :-)

Dec 09 '14 18:12 andrejzverev

On 09/12/2014 18:59, andrejzverev wrote:

Less pain to implement this via external perl (for example) script :-)

If there was a perl interface to libpkg, that might be the case. But there isn't one. Also, we don't want pkg(8) to grow any extra dependencies.

Cheers,

Matthew

Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil.

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$infracaninophile avatar$ Dec 10 '14 07:12 infracaninophile

Alternatively, save permissions, ownership and file flags to the local package database and allow pkg-check to verify those.

Sep 14 '25 11:09 strssndktn