On May 20, 2009, at 7:19 AM, Martin von Willebrand wrote:
Hello
Is there currently a way to see differences between analysed
packages in Fossology?
E.g. once we have run Fossology on Linux kernel version 2.6.20 and
now that we need to run it on 2.6.24, is there a way to see the
differences between the results of these analyses?
(We use quite a lot of effort to review and report the Fossology
results and if that work has to be done again with a new version of
the package, it is not optimal.)
Hi Martin,
This is a high priority on our task list http://fossology.org/
task_list under "Integrate DistroDB (distro package reports)". I've
done these package reports before but never implemented them in
fossology. The reports show you things like what files have changed
between kernels (or any package versions). When implemented in
fossology, we will also show things like "what licenses have changed
between versions". Does this sound like it will meet your needs?
I understand that Fossology actually performs the analysis only on
the changed files, but then it shows the full report using the
earlier analysed results.
By the way, as a way to circumvent this question (since I have not
found a way do this), is there a way to separate the changed files
in one package when compared to another? E.g. a tool that would show
the changed files between the two packages? Then we could submit to
Fossology only the changed files.
We could tell you what files have changed but it would be a pain for
you to collect those files (if there were more than a couple of dozen)
and submit them as a new upload.
Bob
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