[H-GEN] What have I installed?

Christopher Biggs listjunkie at pobox.com
Tue Feb 11 00:13:13 EST 2003


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I wrote:
>
>     You could even use this approach to additionally detect if any
>     files in /usr/local were MODIFIED by the "make install", in
>     addition to new files that were created:
>
>         diff -rqs /usr/local /tmp/notreallyusrlocal
>

Astute readers will notice that I am smoking crack in this paragraph.
That would only work if you had a previous backup to compare against.

--cjb


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