new tool: rpmguard - print important differences between RPMs

Alexey Torkhov atorkhov at gmail.com
Wed Oct 21 12:26:17 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 06:56 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> I have created a simple tool called rpmguard for checking differences 
> between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only
> important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new 
> package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong.
> 
> Read more on:
> http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences-between-rpms/
> 
> Any comments welcome!

One more important difference to check between packages is changes in
library symbols. There is tool exist called rpmsodiff to check it. Would
be nice to see that integrated too.

Alexey




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