Package Changes Analyzer 1.8

Package Changes Analyzer (pkgdiff) can compare and show differences between Linux software packages. It supports reading from RPM, DEB, TAR.GZ and other common formats. It's intended for maintainers to test compatibility and consistency between archive versions.

Tags perl diff package-manager deb rpm tar
License GNU GPL
State stable

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Recent Releases

1.829 Jan 2017 08:25 minor bugfix: . . . -d option to compare large directories. . Added more file classes. . 5 performance improvement. . Omit *.N sufwhen determining the file format. . Do not print warning about missed wdiff into the report. . Increased default width of the report to 80 chars. . . .
1.7.219 Mar 2016 07:05 minor bugfix: New Features. . Ability to download plain-text added/removed patches from the report. . . . . Do not show time stamp in the report. . . Removal of tmp directory in the rfcdiff-1.41-CUSTOM.sh . . .
1.7.112 Dec 2015 06:25 minor bugfix: New Features. . Added -skip-pattern option: skip checking of paths within archives matching a regex. . . . . . Incompatibility with the latest versions of the ABICC tool . . Comparison of the RPM/Deb packages info . . .
1.7.019 Oct 2015 03:15 major feature: New Features. . Added -d option: compare directories instead of packages. . Added -list-added-removed option: show content of added/removed text files. . Added -vnum1 and -vnum2 options: set version numbers of input packages. . Added -title option: set name of the package in the title of the report. . Added -skip-subarchives option: skip checking of archives inside packages. . . .
1.6.409 Sep 2015 03:15 minor bugfix: . . . Style of the report . . Install permissions . . Errors when comparing man pages . Added check for wdiff. . Simplified Makefile. . . .
1.6.308 Nov 2014 06:45 minor bugfix: New Features: Show change rate in the extra info files.xml (moved, changed, renamed). Check if we can remove a common prefix from files of both packages. Encoding of diff reports has been changed to utf-8. Bug Fixes: Fixed a problem with spaces in package name. Added -o option to unzip command. Fixed -tmp-dir option.