Gerry Reno wrote:
Well, what I was hoping was that there was a tool that could install the original RPM into a sandbox and then compare the differences between the sandbox install and the existing installation and report the differences.
It shouldn't be all that hard to whip up a script for that task. You can use rpmdev-extract from rpmdevtools to unpack the original rpm into a tmp dir, then diff the files in there against what's on the filesystem. It could be a handy script to add to rpmdevtools perhaps.
In fact, you may be able to extend the existing rpmdev-diff script to handle comparing a package with the installed files on the system.
Of course, any moment now I expect someone to chime in and say such a script already exists. :)