NAME¶

msidiff - compare Windows Installer packages

SYNOPSIS¶

msidiff [<option> [<option> ...]] [<diff-options>] <source MSI> <target MSI>

DESCRIPTION¶

msidiff compares Windows Installer packages (.MSI files).

OPTIONS¶

-t, --tables

Compare MSI tables as text. This is the default.

-l, --list

Compare the file lists in the packages.

-L, --long-list

Compare the detailed file lists in the packages.

-h, --help

Print a help message and exit.

-v, --version

Print version information and exit.

More than one of -t, -l or -L may be specified.

<diff-options> are passed to diff(1). The first repeated argument of the above or the first argument starting with a `-' but not a valid msidiff option starts <diff-options>, the first argument not starting with `-' ends them. By default, <diff-options> is -Nup for contents, -U0 for others, and -r which is always passed.

AUTHORS¶

msidiff was written by Ville Skyttä for Red Hat, Inc. This manual page was adapted from the program usage information by Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). It was last modified for msidiff version 0.93.