summaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorHolger Freyther <zecke@selfish.org>2006-05-03 23:34:38 +0000
committerOpenEmbedded Project <openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org>2006-05-03 23:34:38 +0000
commit9ebd3327ea63e2a3ffbae655c73fbc535b904f6e (patch)
tree7dd85d86b2117aedac7cdc1ae77bc5196edc6b39 /contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README
parent59a30d011ab87e0c548218ae5f4cfc76f3b18e64 (diff)
parent8c0187854b498bc0603590205213e604ad76a636 (diff)
merge of 3a1f3b49721651ad51810489d8d2924c5e347a54
and cb1b20a4461b3e3cbbc5d4c0596b25de8394246c
Diffstat (limited to 'contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README')
-rw-r--r--contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README b/contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7ddc4419cd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/contrib/qa/ipkg-diff/README
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+A Small utility to diff two directories of Itsy Packages.
+
+This utility will take two directories hopefully containing
+Itsy Packages (ipk) and compare the ipks. It will find deleted
+and new packages but will also compare packages with the same
+name. And check file types, sizes, control files. And one time
+it will be able to find upgrades and scan them as well.
+
+(this script is meant to be hacky, hacky, hacky and to do the
+ job)
+
+The only pattern applied is a Anti-Pattern: Time pressure