pombredanne/rpmscomp

Compare packages (RPMs) installed on multiple systems

rpmscomp

NAME

rpmscomp - compare RPMs installed on multiple systems, or compare versus previously recorded list of installed packages

SYNOPSIS

rpmscomp [OPTION]... [[USER]@HOST]... [FILE]...
rpmscomp --record [OPTION]... [[USER]@HOST]...

DESCRIPTION

Compare the RPMs installed on the specified systems and/or recorded within the specified files.

General Options

-d, --diffonly	Only list differences
-h, --help	Print a help message and exit
-r, --record	Record mode (record installed RPMs for later)
-v, --verbose	Verbose mode

Record Mode Options

-f, --force	Force overwrite of output files
-o, --output	Write a list of installed RPMs to this file name. If multiple HOSTs are specified, this specifies a prefix, and the host name will be appended.

Specifying Hosts and Files

If you specify a host as @HOST, rpmscomp will ssh to HOST in order to determine what RPMs are installed on that host.

If you specify a host as USER@HOST, rpmscomp will ssh to HOST as USER in order to determine what RPMs are installed on that host.

If you provide an argument that doesn't begin with @, rpmscomp will assume this is a file name containing a previously recorded list of RPMs installed on some host.

If you specify no hosts in --record mode, rpmscomp will assume you want to record the RPMs installed on @localhost.

if you specify only a single host in normal (compare) mode, rpmscomp will assume you want to compare versus @localhost.

You can specify as many hosts and/or files as you want to compare (there is no hard limit other than what may be imposed by the amount of memory in your systems).

EXAMPLES

rpmscomp @server1

This will ssh to server1, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on that host, then print out a comparison of the RPMs installed on server1 versus the local host.

rpmscomp @server1 @server2

This will ssh to server1 and server2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, then print out a comparison of the RPMs installed on both hosts.

rpmscomp --diffonly @server1 @server2

This will ssh to server1 and server2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, then print out a comparison of the RPMs installed on both hosts, but only showing RPMs where the installed version, release, or architecture(s) differ between the hosts.

rpmscomp user1@server1 user2@server2

This will ssh to server1 as user1, ssh to server2 as user2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, then print out a comparison of the RPMs installed on both hosts.

rpmscomp @server1 @server2 @server3 @server4 @server5 @server6

This will ssh to server1 through server6, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, then print out a comparison of the RPMs installed on both hosts.

rpmscomp --record @server1 @server2

This will ssh to server1 and server2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, and record that information in files (server1 for the server1 list and server2 for the server2 list). If a file that would be written to already exists, it will not be overwritten.

rpmscomp --record --force @server1 @server2

This will ssh to server1 and server2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, and record that information in files (server1 for the server1 list and server2 for the server2 list). If a file that would be written to already exists, it will be overwritten.

rpmscomp --record --output server1.2013-01-01 @server1

This will ssh to server1, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on that host, and record that information in the file server1.2013-01-01. If the file that would be written to already exists, it will not be overwritten.

rpmscomp --record --output myprefix @server1 @server2

This will ssh to server1 and server2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on each host, and record that information in files (myprefix.server1 for the server1 list and myprefix.server2 for the server2 list). If a file that would be written to already exists, it will not be overwritten.

rpmscomp myprefix.server2 @server2

This will retrieve a previously stored list of RPMs installed from the file myprefix.server2, then ssh to server2, retrieve a list of all the RPMs installed on that host, then print out a comparison of the RPMs lisetd in myprefix.server2 versus those currently installed on server2.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2013, Paul Waterman

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.