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