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 1QMNAD-0004uE-9i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 17 May 2011 16:30:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDBE61C008; Tue, 17 May 2011 16:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f53.google.com (mail-vw0-f53.google.com [209.85.212.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5C131C008 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 16:28:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws13 with SMTP id 13so544199vws.40 for ; Tue, 17 May 2011 09:28:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:content-type; bh=EAVdthiUJx3+HlbEQJep0Vfj76dgxR4P5b1O+Qom5bA=; b=Z7hXrNP6Y+l+DdLLB+SxaK0YjLNeuhswobbvDqWLGKvtOswWIUOueVBljxZZgFAPy3 ysjacIVlvs4U+r8OBsdbIq34sarOz/bRkpMIhHRBldI63nBtMaBbWIHzFN5Vdb4hLxMM 1l+mZtAhmoUzHcWY5ebsqmrKEUuNdekH2fOkA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :content-type; b=RBMcSQYqwPShfSJLQ8T2PxZtnI03uSXZbRs7fX5lV7MCLZisVpChzgFnsGaQgkaAt+ X0a+psYpO+pzJes5ITvzwYNPao9/hvYIAg5n/u0Cl4tG++KidZXCNP76fsKO4dwCMfiL QoLnslimpJztMxofQVrbUk91HymMXY9Ylsk3I= Received: by 10.52.73.66 with SMTP id j2mr1104653vdv.218.1305649739083; Tue, 17 May 2011 09:28:59 -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 Received: by 10.52.111.232 with HTTP; Tue, 17 May 2011 09:28:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <1305639755.6511.2@numa-i> From: Leonardo Guilherme Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 13:28:39 -0300 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Compare two Gentoo machines - please help To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=20cf3071cfcae62f2c04a37b449c X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: ed58738bb702cb9efb1aa1b73df03554 --20cf3071cfcae62f2c04a37b449c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Leonardo 2011/5/17 Paul Hartman > 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. > > I would go with Paul's rsync solution. Leonardo --20cf3071cfcae62f2c04a37b449c Content-Type: text/html; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Leonardo


2011/5/17 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo= @gmail.com>
On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Helmut J= arausch
<jarausch@igpm.rwth-aach= en.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 =96dry-run to tell you what's diff= erent
(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.<= div>

Leonardo
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