RPM: how to find installed differences?

Gerry Reno greno at verizon.net
Sat Jan 24 18:10:36 UTC 2009


Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 13:01:13 -0500,
>   Gerry Reno <greno at verizon.net> wrote:
>   
>> Does anyone know of a way to find the differences between an  
>> installation and its original RPM?
>>     
>
> rpm -V will tell you about installed files that don't match what was in
> the rpm. This doesn't handle files created by install scripts, but only
> a few things create files in install scripts.
>
>   
Ok, that sort of works to get some information about which files have 
some changes. It doesn't show any new files that may have been added to 
the installation though.

Regards,
Gerry

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