[CentOS] yum/dnf diff

Fri Jun 5 16:55:43 UTC 2020
Kenneth Porter <shiva at sewingwitch.com>

--On Friday, June 05, 2020 9:10 AM -0500 Johnny Hughes <johnny at 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.