> I also use find and grep a lot for this kind of thing.
> Assuming you know your software is going into /usr, you could
> do something like this:
>
> find /usr > before
> ./configure ; make ; make install
> find /usr > after
>
> for i in `cat before`; do
>   grep -v $i after > zzz
>   mv zzz after
> done
>
> The remaining "after" file will only have those files which
> were not in "before."

That's one of the nice things about using tripwire for this -- you don't
have to know in advance what got changed. tripwire does a snapshot of the
whole system, so when you get some lame package that dumps files in /lib or
other unexpected places, or you need to edit a file in /etc or something,
you don't have to track down everything.

-- db

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