[pacman-dev] about pacdiff

[Allan McRae]

Xavier wrote:
> I like a lot pacdiff for dealing with pacnew files. I always notice
> that it miss the grub config because it lies in /boot/ while pacdiff
> only checks in /etc/
> I was curious so I decided to have a look at how many backup config
> files are not in /etc/ :)
> $ sh backup.sh > backup-list
> $ cat backup-list | cut -d'/' -f1 | sort -u
>
> boot
> conf.d
> home
> opt
> srv
> sysctl.conf
> usr
> var
>
> Note that we have three crazy files there : empty, conf.d and
> sysctl.conf. Here are the three problematic files/packages :
> conf.d/ntp-client.conf / /var/abs/extra/ntp/PKGBUILD
> /etc/foomatic/filter.conf / /var/abs/testing/foomatic-filters/PKGBUILD
> sysctl.conf / /var/abs/community/network/ufw/PKGBUILD
>
> I should probably report bugs for these, though it was not my original
> intention.
> So after this manual filtering, here is the list :
> boot home opt srv usr var
>
> That would considerably slow down pacdiff though so probably not worth
> it. It is disappointing :)
>   

What about using "locate" to find the files.  More general but 
potentially less slowdown maybe?  I guess the user would need to update 
their locate db though...

Allan