new tool: rpmguard - print important differences between RPMs

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Wed Oct 21 21:44:14 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:12 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> 2009/10/21 Kamil Paral <kparal at redhat.com>:
> > Hi,
> >
> > 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.

> Was it not easier to just add a "less verbose" mode to rpmdiff?

As we discussed in the QA meeting this week, that may well be ultimately
what this becomes, but for now it's a separate tool while Kamil works on
it. He may well end up submitting it as a patch for rpmdiff in the end.

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