From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QMLfY-0005rt-40 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:54:44 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F1EC41C0DE; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qw0-f53.google.com (mail-qw0-f53.google.com [209.85.216.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6B531C0DE for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 14:52:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qwb7 with SMTP id 7so355224qwb.40 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:52:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from :date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=g+zSAfJTfJCjW4GyM/axura1hDAjL+/ZzC81NLS0Zws=; b=jHZ55CfbwJNGtiJVy1XwLCmtA+eDDx3y9i6BJd5PFvYcbXnYV9uTMQq9sYy7TIfHEL 3b515hlhS3I8ObvH629xztMKa8sOi4xBGZbtgRHLtfasVqXAIuvYz/GM403ryd3TMXpz AnW7mbVITzVALtgEAP7zqaDdeo+Co6WQ2NE6I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SJKxI/c3tOUoEZhMTiajik5YPa5tiN4RhK3NodFGjKF6IsdyhMqRbDiRpfFlrUperG 2v+G6iIkE7qKPcgYY8zo+MwTHNMs/soKosxycdr/OFz6wKmOyGVdVGJU8SnX5QGumwqn LAXXFxE8A0O/3GNd9SUwS8kDmbRJY0lkdcevg= Received: by 10.229.200.105 with SMTP id ev41mr537051qcb.0.1305643959112; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:52:39 -0700 (PDT) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.229.213.195 with HTTP; Tue, 17 May 2011 07:52:19 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> References: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> From: Paul Hartman Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:52:19 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: -dTJ2nWlc0IY4UKfGocUj7XEny0 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3a381aef40387feda35ca504b7ee7f9a On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut Jarausch 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 =96dry-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.