germinate-pkg-diff(1)

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 ⟨[email protected]⟩ Colin Watson ⟨[email protected]⟩