pkgdiff(1) a tool for visualizing changes in Linux software packages

DESCRIPTION

NAME:

Package Changes Analyzer A tool for analyzing changes in Linux software packages

DESCRIPTION:

Package Changes Analyzer (PkgDiff) is a tool for analyzing changes in Linux software packages (RPM, DEB, TAR.GZ, etc).
The tool is intended for Linux maintainers who are interested in ensuring compatibility of old and new versions of packages.
This tool is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPL.

USAGE:

pkgdiff PKG1 PKG2 [options]

EXAMPLES:

pkgdiff OLD.rpm NEW.rpm pkgdiff OLD.tar.gz NEW.tar.gz

ARGUMENTS:

PKG1
Path to the old version of a package (RPM, DEB, TAR.GZ, etc).
If you need to analyze a group of packages then you can pass an XML-descriptor of this group (VERSION.xml file):
<version>
/* Group version */
</version>
<group>
/* Group name */
</group>
<packages>
/path1/to/package(s) /path2/to/package(s) ...
</packages>
PKG2
Path to the new version of a package (RPM, DEB, TAR.GZ, etc).

INFORMATION OPTIONS:

-h|-help
Print this help.
-v|-version
Print version information.
-dumpversion
Print the tool version (1.7.2) and don't do anything else.

GENERAL OPTIONS:

-report-path PATH
Path to the report. Default:
pkgdiff_reports/<pkg>/<v1>_to_<v2>/changes_report.html
-details
Try to create detailed reports.
-size-limit SIZE
Don't analyze files larger than SIZE in kilobytes.
-width WIDTH
Width of the Visual Diff. Default: 75
-prelines NUM
Size of the context in the Visual Diff. Default: 10
-ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in the amount of white space.
-ignore-all-space
Ignore all white space.
-ignore-blank-lines
Ignore changes whose lines are all blank.
-quick
Quick mode without creating of Visual Diffs for files.
-minimal
Try to find a smaller set of changes.

OTHER OPTIONS:

-check-usage
Check if package content is used by other packages in the repository.
-pkg-manager NAME
Specify package management tool. Supported:
urpm - Mandriva URPM
-template
Create XML-descriptor template ./VERSION.xml
-extra-info DIR
Dump extra info to DIR.
-tmp-dir DIR
Use custom temp directory.
-hide-unchanged
Don't show unchanged files in the report.
-debug
Show debug info.
-name NAME
Set name of the package to NAME.
-title TITLE
Set name of the package in the title of the report to TITLE.
-vnum1 NUM
Set version number of the old package to NUM.
-vnum2 NUM
Set version number of the new package to NUM.
-links-target TARGET
Set target attribute for links in the report:
_self _blank (default)
-list-added-removed
Show content of added and removed text files.
-skip-subarchives
Skip checking of archives inside the input packages.
-skip-pattern REGEX
Skip checking of paths within archives matching REGEX.
-d|-directories
Compare directories instead of packages.

REPORT:

Report will be generated to:
pkgdiff_reports/<pkg>/<v1>_to_<v2>/changes_report.html

EXIT CODES:

0 - Unchanged. The tool has run without any errors. non-zero - Changed or the tool has run with errors.

MORE INFORMATION:

http://lvc.github.com/pkgdiff/

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Peter Spiess-Knafl <[email protected]> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).

Written by Andrey Ponomarenko.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2016 Andrey Ponomarenko's ABI Laboratory License: GNU GPL <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/> This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it.