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littlebigman 05-11-2009 02:31 AM

Show changes made by "make install"?
 
Hello

I'd like to find some equivalent to the Windows InCtrl utility so that I know exactly what changes were made when I run some software's "make install".

Do you know of an easy way to do this? FWIW, to install servers and desktops, I usually use CentOS, Ubuntu, and FreeBSD.

Thank you.

H_TeXMeX_H 05-11-2009 02:56 AM

I recommend paco, it has a nice GUI too:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/paco/

To install using any install command do:
Code:

paco -lD "make install"
paco -lD "./scons.py install"
paco -lD "./install.sh"

It will log anything that the script changes. Just be careful when removing items because it also logs files that were modified but should not be removed.


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