From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help
Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:52:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikb6-xvV371c47Ou8vmJEisiArfKQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i>
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have two (nearly) identical machines, both running ~amd64 Gentoo up-
> to-date and with a (nearly) identical set of installed packages.
>
> Still, on one of these machines KDE crashes with that infamous polkit-
> kde-authentication-agent-1 segmentation fault.
>
> On the other machine there is no problem.
>
> How can one smartly compare two Gentoo installations.
>
> Currently I would have to produce an md5sum of all files in
> /etc /usr /var and / and compare these. But there are dozens of
> thousands of files in these directories.
You could use rsync with –dry-run to tell you what's different
(without actually transferring any files), or you could perhaps use
diff over ssh to compare a whole tree at once.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-17 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-17 13:42 [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help Helmut Jarausch
2011-05-17 14:52 ` Paul Hartman [this message]
2011-05-17 16:28 ` Leonardo Guilherme
2011-05-17 15:03 ` Alan Mackenzie
2011-05-17 15:52 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-17 15:57 ` Blakawk
2011-05-17 20:21 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2011-05-19 9:23 ` Helmut Jarausch
2011-05-17 17:52 ` Stroller
2011-05-17 16:05 ` [gentoo-user] " James
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