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NAME

germinate-pkg-diff — compare seeds against currently installed packages

SYNOPSIS

germinate-pkg-diff [ -l file ] [ -m { i | r | d }] [ -a arch ] [ seeds ]

DESCRIPTION

germinate-pkg-diff compares the expansion of a list of seed packages against the set of packages installed on the current system. When constructing seeds for a software distribution, it can be used to iteratively find packages installed on developers’ systems that should be included in the seeds.

A list of seeds against which to compare may be supplied as non-option arguments. Seeds from which they inherit will be added automatically. The default is ‘desktop’.

OPTIONS
-l , --list file

Read the list of currently installed packages from file . The default is to read the output of dpkg --get-selections , and any supplied file should be in the same format.

-m , --mode { i | r | d }

Set the output mode as follows:

i

Show the dpkg selections needed to install just these seeds. List unseeded but installed files as “deinstall”, and seeded but uninstalled files as “install”.

r

List unseeded but installed files as “install”, and seeded but uninstalled files as “deinstall”.

d

Show the differences between the packages specified by the seeds and the list of installed packages, in a somewhat diff -like format.

-S , --seed-source source ,...

Fetch seeds from the specified sources. The default is https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/seeds/ .

-s , --seed-dist dist

Fetch seeds for distribution dist . The default is ubuntu.mantic .

-d , --dist dist ,...

Operate on the specified distributions. The default is mantic . Listing multiple distributions may be useful, for example, when examining both a released distribution and its security updates.

-a , --arch arch

Operate on architecture arch . The default is amd64 .

BUGS

--mode r is useless as dpkg --set-selections input.

AUTHORS

Lamont Jones <lamont@ubuntu.com>
Colin Watson <cjwatson@canonical.com>

germinate-pkg-diff is copyright © 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Canonical Ltd. See the GNU General Public License version 2 or later for copying conditions. A copy of the GNU General Public License is available in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL . Ubuntu Jul 18, 2007 GERMINATE-PKG-DIFF (1)

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