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GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF(1) General Commands Manual GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF(1)

NAME

germinate-pkg-diff —
compare seeds against currently installed packages

SYNOPSIS

germinate-pkg-diff [-l file] [-m {i|r|d}] [-a arch] [seeds]

DESCRIPTION

germinate-pkg-diff compares the expansion of a list of seed packages against the set of packages installed on the current system. When constructing seeds for a software distribution, it can be used to iteratively find packages installed on developers' systems that should be included in the seeds.

A list of seeds against which to compare may be supplied as non-option arguments. Seeds from which they inherit will be added automatically. The default is ‘desktop’.

OPTIONS

, --list file
Read the list of currently installed packages from file. The default is to read the output of dpkg --get-selections, and any supplied file should be in the same format.
, --mode {i|r|d}
Set the output mode as follows:
Show the dpkg selections needed to install just these seeds. List unseeded but installed files as “deinstall”, and seeded but uninstalled files as “install”.
List unseeded but installed files as “install”, and seeded but uninstalled files as “deinstall”.
Show the differences between the packages specified by the seeds and the list of installed packages, in a somewhat diff-like format.
, --seed-source source,...
Fetch seeds from the specified sources. The default is http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/.
, --seed-dist dist
Fetch seeds for distribution dist. The default is ubuntu.zesty.
, --dist dist,...
Operate on the specified distributions. The default is zesty. Listing multiple distributions may be useful, for example, when examining both a released distribution and its security updates.
, --arch arch
Operate on architecture arch. The default is i386.

BUGS

--mode r is useless as dpkg --set-selections input.

AUTHORS

Lamont Jones ⟨lamont@ubuntu.com⟩
Colin Watson ⟨cjwatson@canonical.com⟩

germinate-pkg-diff is copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Canonical Ltd. See the GNU General Public License version 2 or later for copying conditions. A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.

July 18, 2007 Ubuntu