On Fri, Jun 05, 2015 at 10:34:19AM +0200, Dodji Seketeli wrote:
> We are currently working on a tool named "abipkgdiff"[3] that takes
> two RPMs
Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek(a)in.waw.pl> a écrit:
About the name: "package" is fairly generic, but
"pkg" is used as specific name. Arch has
".pkg.tar.xz", Slackware has "pkgtool". So unless you plan to support
generic archive
formats,
Indeed, that is what we are planning to do, unless we find down the road
that its a dead end.
So if a party interested in supporting a particular package format, we'd
be glad to access patches for doing so. That distro-specific support
should just be about unpacking the content of the package to a temporary
directory tree, and then the generic part of the tool should do the rest.
I think it would be best to use something rpm-specific, like
"abirpmdiff"
or maybe even "rpmabidiff". The latter would have the advantage that it would
be
more discoverable with tab-completion and similar.
Cheers,
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Dodji