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On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch |
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<jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up- |
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> to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages. |
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> Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit- |
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> kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault. |
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> On the other machine there is no problem. |
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> How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations. |
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> Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in |
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> /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of |
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> thousands of files in these directories. |
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You could use rsync with –dry-run to tell you what's different |
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(without actually transferring any files), or you could perhaps use |
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diff over ssh to compare a whole tree at once. |
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