Re: [Pkgutil-users] Compare available packages to those installed

[Mark R B. <ma...@pr...>]

  On 29/09/2010 17:15, Peter Bonivart wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:19 PM,<ma...@pr...>  wrote:
>> An uncontroversial patch, I hope, is attached.
>>
>> This patch can be applied to pkgutil-2.1 (rev 286).
>>
>> It adds the following:
>>
>> * New option added, pkgutil -A (--compare-available), that is similar to pkgutil -c, except that it lists the packages in the catalogue and compares them with the installed version (or says "not installed").
>> * pkgutil -C now has a long option equivalent; --compare-different.
>>
>> I'm immediately finding a use for this feature, and hope you do too.
> Actually, I never liked how pkg-get displayed thousands of lines with
> "not installed" (I always used it "|grep -v not") so my default was to
> filter those out. Now you're asking for that! :-)
>
> The patch has been committed (r297). Sorry for it taking so long.
>

Thanks Peter, the reason I needed the option was because I'm 
implementing a "software policy" approach where an internal catalogue 
actually defines all the software that servers subscribing to the policy 
should have installed.  I can run pkgutil -A to determine if a server is 
100% compliant or not with that policy.