taz1988/pkgdiff

A tool for visualizing changes in Linux software packages

PkgDiff 1.8

Package Changes Analyzer (pkgdiff) — a tool for visualizing changes in Linux software packages (RPM, DEB, TAR.GZ, etc).

Contents

1. About
2. Install
3. Usage

About

The tool is intended for Linux maintainers who are interested in ensuring compatibility of old and new versions of packages. The tool can compare directories as well (with the help of the -d option).

Sample report: https://abi-laboratory.pro/tracker/package_diff/libssh/0.6.5/0.7.0/report.html

The tool is developed by Andrey Ponomarenko.

Install

sudo make install prefix=/usr

Requires

• Perl 5
• GNU Diff
• GNU Wdiff
• GNU Awk
• GNU Binutils
• Perl-File-LibMagic

Suggests

• ABI Compliance Checker 1.99.1 or newer: https://github.com/lvc/abi-compliance-checker/
• ABI Dumper 0.97 or newer: https://github.com/lvc/abi-dumper

Usage

pkgdiff PKG1 PKG2 [options]

Example

pkgdiff libssh-0.6.5.tar.xz libssh-0.7.0.tar.xz

Compare directories

pkgdiff -d DIR1/ DIR2/ [options]

Useful options

Option	Meaning
-hide-unchanged	Don't show unchanged files in the report
-list-added-removed	Show content of added and removed text files
-skip-pattern REGEX	Don't check files matching REGEX
-tmp-dir DIR	Use custom temp directory
-d/-directories	Compare directories instead of packages

Adv. usage

For advanced usage, see output of -help option.