Skip to content

Home

Jump to bottom
aponomarenko edited this page Jan 28, 2012 · 25 revisions

Table of Contents

What is pkgdiff?

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.

Downloads

The latest release can be downloaded from this page.

Read-only access to the latest development version: 

    git clone git://github.com/pkgdiff/pkgdiff

License

This program is free software. You may use, redistribute and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU GPL

Supported Platforms

GNU/Linux, FreeBSD

System Requirements

Suggests:

Installation

The tool is ready-to-use after extracting the archive. You can also use a Makefile to install the tool into the system: 

  cd pkgdiff-x.y.z/
  sudo perl Makefile.pl --install --prefix=PREFIX [/usr, /usr/local]

This command will install a pkgdiff program to the PREFIX/bin system directory and private modules into the PREFIX/share.

Usage 

  pkgdiff -old OLD.rpm -new NEW.rpm

The HTML report will be generated to: 

  pkgdiff_reports/<pkg>/<v1>_to_<v2>/compat_report.html

Adv. Usage

For advanced usage, see output of --help option: 

  pkgdiff --help

If you need to analyze a group of packages then you can create an XML-descriptor of this group (OLD.xml file): 

  <group>
      libglib
  </group>
  
  <packages>
      libglib2.0-devel-2.24.1-1mdv2010.1.i586.rpm
      libglib2.0_0-2.24.1-1mdv2010.1.i586.rpm
  </packages>

And then pass XML-descriptors of old and new versions of a group to the tool: 

  pkgdiff -old OLD.xml -new NEW.xml

The HTML report will be generated to: 

    pkgdiff_reports/<group>/<v1>_to_<v2>/compat_report.html

Bugs

Please post your bug reports, feature requests and questions to the issue tracker.

Maintainers

The tool is developed by the ROSA Laboratory.

Andrey Ponomarenko is the leader of this project.

Clone this wiki locally