[Yum] In pursuit of 32-bit => 64-bit upgrade path

[Seth Vidal]

On Mon, 20 Apr 2009, Les Mikesell wrote:

>
> Version control of files that you change is always a good thing, but 
> configuration management tools always add some bizarre abstraction layers of 
> their own that don't seem portable or likely to handle major changes in the 
> underlaying file structure.  Are there any handy tools to just throw the 
> files that RPM knows you've changed into subversion or a similar version 
> control tool so there is no extra effort or abstraction to learn to be able 
> to backtrack to find what changes were made and when?  With viewvc you could 
> do all the human interaction with a web browser with an obvious layout.
>

I wrote one at one point. All it really does is run an rpm -Va in python 
and spit back to you the list of all the files which are changed. 
Unfortunately it is not the quickest of processes and it won't get all the 
files which you've ADDED which are not in an rpm.


-sv