[pacman-dev] about pacdiff

[Kevin Barry]

What about using find in /etc but also running a locate? This means
that if a user never runs updatedb they still get pacdiff for /etc,
but other users can get global pacdiff.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Dan McGee <dpmcgee at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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