Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help

[Leonardo Guilherme <leonardo.guilherme@gmail.com>]

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Leonardo


2011/5/17 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>

> 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.
>
>
I would go with Paul's rsync solution.

Leonardo

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