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 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. > > 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. > > > https://git.centos.org/ > > 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 at 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 at 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. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 195 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20200605/a32a1d92/attachment-0004.sig>