NAME¶

germinate-pkg-diff — compare seeds against currently installed packages

SYNOPSIS¶

DESCRIPTION¶

germinate-pkg-diff compares the expansion of a list of seed packages against the set of packages installed on the current system. When constructing seeds for a software distribution, it can be used to iteratively find packages installed on developers' systems that should be included in the seeds.

A list of seeds against which to compare may be supplied as non-option arguments. Seeds from which they inherit will be added automatically. The default is ‘desktop’.

OPTIONS¶

-l, --list file

Read the list of currently installed packages from file. The default is to read the output of dpkg --get-selections, and any supplied file should be in the same format.

-m, --mode {i|r|d}

Set the output mode as follows:

i

Show the dpkg selections needed to install just these seeds. List unseeded but installed files as “deinstall”, and seeded but uninstalled files as “install”.

r

List unseeded but installed files as “install”, and seeded but uninstalled files as “deinstall”.

d

Show the differences between the packages specified by the seeds and the list of installed packages, in a somewhat diff-like format.

-S, --seed-source source,...

Fetch seeds from the specified sources. The default is http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/seeds/.

-s, --seed-dist dist

Fetch seeds for distribution dist. The default is ubuntu.bionic.

-d, --dist dist,...

Operate on the specified distributions. The default is bionic. Listing multiple distributions may be useful, for example, when examining both a released distribution and its security updates.

-a, --arch arch

Operate on architecture arch. The default is i386.

BUGS¶

--mode r is useless as dpkg --set-selections input.

AUTHORS¶

Lamont Jones ⟨lamont@ubuntu.com⟩
Colin Watson ⟨cjwatson@canonical.com⟩

germinate-pkg-diff is copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Canonical Ltd. See the GNU General Public License version 2 or later for copying conditions. A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.