NAME

pkgdiff — compare package manifests

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

pkgdiff compares two package manifests and reports differences. One of the manifests can be read from stdin by specifying - in place of the file name. pkgdiff sorts each manifest and action into a consistent order before comparison.

Output is in the following form:

+ complete_action

This action is in file2 but not in file1.

- complete_action

This action is in file1 but not in file2.

- attribute1=value1

This attribute,value is in file1 but not in file2.

+ attribute2=value2

This attribute,value is in file2 but not in file1.

Actions with different variants but the same type and key attribute value are treated as separate actions for purposes of comparison. Thus, actions that change attributes are shown in their complete form rather than as attribute changes.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

--help

Display a usage message.

-i attribute

Ignore attribute if present during comparisons. Ignoring the hash attribute will also ignore any other hash attribute and, similarly, ignoring size will ignore all sizes. Ignoring any attribute with this option will automatically also ignore the timestamp attribute. This option cannot be used with the -o option. This option can be specified multiple times.

-o attribute

Only report differences in attribute. This option cannot be used with the -i option. This option elides any action changes that do not affect attribute on an action. This option can be specified multiple times.

-t action_name[,action_name]...

Only compare the specified actions. Multiple actions can be specified in a comma-separated list. The value of action_name is one of the actions listed in "Actions" in the pkg(7) man page. For example, the following values could be specified for action_name: file, dir, driver, depend, set. This option can be specified multiple times.

-v name=value

Only compute differences for this variant value. For example, only compute differences for arch=sparc. This variant tag is removed for all actions before comparison. Only one value can be specified per variant. This option can be specified multiple times for different variants.

EXIT STATUS

0

No differences were found.

1

Differences were found.

2

Invalid command line options were specified.

3

An error occurred.

99

An unanticipated exception occurred.

SEE ALSO

pkg(7)

https://github.com/omniosorg/pkg5