[pacman-dev] about pacdiff

[Dan McGee]

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> 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...

This would in fact be a ton faster. Perhaps some sort of flag to tell
pacdiff to use locate rather than a manual find would be helpful?

-Dan