[solved] pacman command to compare package config files

Question

Hi, Id like to know if there is a pacman command similar to this:
pacman -Qii | awk '/^MODIFIED/ {print $2}'
from pacman tips, but where it just checks if the files are not identicle to the default config file of the package?
From what I can tell, this checks if a file was modified at all (I have copied a config file from a package to a modified package and the file still appears in the output, even though their contents is identicle.
pacman -Qii | awk '/^MODIFIED/ {print $2}'
Last edited by jrussell (2013-04-13 17:59:39)

Answer 1

graysky wrote:
jrussell wrote:... but where it just checks if the files are not identicle to the default config file of the package?
Unless I am misunderstanding you, pacman does that by default; when the upgrade is written to disc, the file in question becomes foo.pacnew which you can easily vimdiff or whatever against the original.
Yes, but I would like to print out a list of config files that are not identical
I basically want to see a list of all the config files installed that are not identical to thier original config file,
pacman -Qii | awk '/^MODIFIED/ {print $2}'
still lists files which are identical because I think it uses modification times or something else