On 6/5/20 2:21 PM, Johnny Hughes wrote:
On 6/5/20 11:55 AM, Kenneth Porter wrote:
--On Friday, June 05, 2020 9:10 AM -0500 Johnny Hughes johnny@centos.org wrote:
These are two totally separate programs and projects.
I'm not talking about diff'ing the yum and dnf programs. I'm talking about diffing the RPM packages that "rpm -V" reveals as changed. Such a utility would download the package if it wasn't in the cache, unpack it with cpio into a temp directory, and diff the component files against the copies on disk.
yum and dnf would only be involved because they maintain a package cache so they might be the logical place to implement a plugin to do this.
Oh .. I misunderstood what you are after.
If you are dealing with CentOS RPMs .. you can just look at git.centos.org:
For example .. here is one CentOS Linux 7 rpm. I'll pick 389-ds-base.
Click into search and type 389-ds-base .. pick rpms/389-ds-base
Click on Branches on the left tabs .. In this example, I'll pick c7
Now if you click on the left commits tab. you will see each c7 rpm import.
if you click on the six digit number, for example, e52775 for the current latest "import 389-ds-base-1.3.10.1-9.el7_8". The result is every diff of every change for the rpm.
You can also do a git clone of any rpm and work with the branch on your machine:
so:
git clone https://git.centos.org/rpms/389-ds-base.git
cd 389-ds-base
git checkout c7
git log
(shows) commit e52775ada05eb168f4b1df79fc0350b5f38d494c Author: CentOS Sources bugs@centos.org Date: Tue May 12 08:34:50 2020 -0400
import 389-ds-base-1.3.10.1-9.el7_8
commit 4c04d8bc35c01089a6ec0a234558b3637603d9e1 Author: CentOS Sources bugs@centos.org Date: Tue Mar 31 05:37:27 2020 -0400
import 389-ds-base-1.3.10.1-5.el7
(and a bunch more)
If you then did:
git diff 4c04d8bc35c01089a6ec0a234558b3637603d9e1 e52775ada05eb168f4b1df79fc0350b5f38d494c > diff
then the file diff would look just like the web info you got in the link you did in my last post.