germinate-pkg-diff

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

  • , Read the list of currently installed packages from The default is to read the output of c dpkg Fl Fl get-selections , and any supplied file should be in the same format.
  • , Set the output mode as follows:
    • i Show the c dpkg selections needed to install just these seeds. List unseeded but installed files as and seeded but uninstalled files as
    • r List unseeded but installed files as and seeded but uninstalled files as
    • d Show the differences between the packages specified by the seeds and the list of installed packages, in a somewhat c diff Ns -like format.
  • , Operate on architecture The default is

BUGS

is useless as c dpkg Fl Fl set-selections input.

AUTHORS

is copyright 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 See the GNU General Public License version 2 or later for copying conditions. A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in