sean finney <[email protected]> writes:
> okay, before i do any proper coding on a cmdline utility, i thought we
> should work out the details of the cmdline interface. this is an initial
> draft of what i was thinking, comments requested :)
>
>
> sean
>
> NAME
>
> dpkg-conffile - inspect status and conttents of conffiles
>
> SYNOPSIS
>
> dpkg-conffile is a program designed to inspect and report on
> the status of conffiles provided by packages that have been
> installed on the system. It can be used to inspect the status
> on individual files, packages, or system wide.
>
> USAGE
>
> dpkg-conffile [options] <action> <args>
>
> OPTIONS
>
> --admindir dir
>
> Change default administrative directory, which contains
> many files that give information about status of
> installed or uninstalled packages, etc. (Defaults to
> /var/lib/dpkg)
>
> -r, --recursive
>
> Used in combination with some commands to activate
> recursive behavior for matching conffile_paths.
>
> ACTIONS
>
> -o, --orig conffile_path
>
> Output the package's original version of the conffile.
>
> -d, --diff conffile_path
>
> Show the delta between the package's original version of
> the conffile and the currently installed conffile. The
> return value is that of the underlying call to diff(1).
In the thread to your patch series for conffile tracking I saw
mentioned that you have:
- current conffile
- old orig conffile
- new orig conffile
- last successfully installed conffile
Shouldn't one be able to get diffs between basically any 2 of them as
far as they exist at the time?
MfG
Goswin
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