new tool: rpmguard - print important differences between RPMs

[Kamil Paral]

Hi,

I have created a simple tool called rpmguard for checking differences 
between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only
important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new 
package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong.

Read more on:
http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences-...

Any comments welcome!

Kamil

[Alexey Torkhov]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 06:56 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> I have created a simple tool called rpmguard for checking differences 
> between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only
> important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new 
> package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong.
>
> Read more on:
> http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences-...
>
> Any comments welcome!

One more important difference to check between packages is changes in
library symbols. There is tool exist called rpmsodiff to check it. Would
be nice to see that integrated too.

Alexey

[Kamil Paral]

----- "Alexey Torkhov"  wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 06:56 -0400, Kamil Paral wrote:
> > I have created a simple tool called rpmguard for checking
>
> differences
> > between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints
>
> only
> > important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a
>
> new
> > package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely
>
> wrong.
> > Read more on:
>
> http://kparal.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/rpmguard-print-important-differences-...
> > Any comments welcome!
>
> One more important difference to check between packages is changes in
> library symbols. There is tool exist called rpmsodiff to check it.
> Would
> be nice to see that integrated too.
>
> Alexey

Thanks for an idea, I have created a ticket for it:
https://fedorahosted.org/autoqa/ticket/75

Kamil

[Mat Booth]

2009/10/21 Kamil Paral :
> Hi,
>
> I have created a simple tool called rpmguard for checking differences
> between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only
> important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new
> package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong.

Was it not easier to just add a "less verbose" mode to rpmdiff?

[Adam Williamson]

On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 15:12 +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> 2009/10/21 Kamil Paral :
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have created a simple tool called rpmguard for checking differences
> > between RPM packages. It is very similar to rpmdiff, but it prints only
> > important changes, not all. Therefore it can be used every time a new
> > package is built to easily see if something hasn’t went completely wrong.
> Was it not easier to just add a "less verbose" mode to rpmdiff?

As we discussed in the QA meeting this week, that may well be ultimately
what this becomes, but for now it's a separate tool while Kamil works on
it. He may well end up submitting it as a patch for rpmdiff in the end.