Re: Visual diff tool?

[Brian Ashe <rhlist dee-web com>]

On Friday January 28, 2005 10:57 am, Tarjei Knapstad wrote:
> I'd like to compare the packages installed on two different systems, and
> have them presented in a nice way. So far I've done
>
> rpm -qa | sort > packages_box1.txt
>
> on both boxes and then used diff to compare them, but I'd like to have
> the diff presented visually if possible (very much like Cervisia
> presents diffs between CVS revisions).
>
> Is there any tool available in Fedora that can do this? (OK, I could use
> the same filename for both, commit them as two different revisions in a
> CVS rep, and then do a diff in Cervisia, but that's a bit cumbersome :))

Try Kompare. I'm assuming you like KDE since you mention Cervisia, and Kompare 
is basically the same interface except it has more features for applying the 
differences, etc. Should already be installed if Cervisia is.

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