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著者: wirelessduck
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To: Olaf Meeuwissen
CC: dng
題目: Re: [DNG] etckeeper: was: Er, Not that way ? .Re: Announcing Devuan 4.0: Chimaera!


> On 21 Oct 2021, at 22:47, Olaf Meeuwissen <paddy-hack@???> wrote:
>
> Hi wirelessduck,
>
> wirelessduck--- via Dng writes:
>
>>>> On 20 Oct 2021, at 20:45, Olaf Meeuwissen via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>>>
>>> I really looked into snapshotting but the etckeeper commit messages also
>>> list which packages changed, like so (after I "beautified" the logging a
>>> bit to suit my taste and needs)
>>>
>>> commit dd9602a525e590f24ec19904248938e6ab76e999 (HEAD -> master)
>>> Author: olaf <olaf@quark>
>>> Date: Mon Oct 11 21:48:25 2021 +0900
>>>
>>>     Committing changes in /etc after APT run

>>>
>>>     Package changes:
>>>     - debconf 1.5.71 all
>>>     + debconf 1.5.71+deb10u1 all
>>>     - libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>>>     + libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>>>     - libk5crypto3 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>>>     + libk5crypto3 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>>>     - libkrb5-3 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>>>     + libkrb5-3 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>>>     - libkrb5support0 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>>>     + libkrb5support0 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>>>     - libmariadb3 1:10.3.29-0+deb10u1 amd64
>>>     + libmariadb3 1:10.3.31-0+deb10u1 amd64

>>>
>>> which gives me a chance to pinpoint any culprits and submit bug reports
>>> if necessary with detailed info on the changed packages.
>>
>> Is this formatting configured in etckeeper or gitconfig? I would like
>> to try and replicate. It looks very useful.
>
> TL;DR: in etckeeper.
>
> The etckeeper utility does a good job of collecting the package changes
> out-of-the-box but the exact output is slightly different from what I
> included above. The out-of-the-box behaviour includes the output of
>
> diff -U0 $before $after | egrep '^[-+]'
>
> where $before and $after are "files" with the output of
>
>  dpkg-query -W -f '${Status}\t${Package} ${Version}\n' | \
>          egrep '(ok installed|ok config-files)' | cut -f2,3

>
> I've tweaked that a bit to insert a space after the '^[-+]' and run the
> diff output through `sort -k2` so I get the before and after package
> info closer together. I've also made a few very minor changes to start
> the message with a capital and capitalized APT.
>
> Without my changes, the above would have looked something like
>
> commit dd9602a525e590f24ec19904248938e6ab76e999 (HEAD -> master)
> Author: olaf <olaf@quark>
> Date: Mon Oct 11 21:48:25 2021 +0900
>
>      committing changes in /etc after apt run

>
>      Package changes:
>      -debconf 1.5.71 all
>      +debconf 1.5.71+deb10u1 all
>      -libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>      +libgssapi-krb5-2 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>      -libk5crypto3 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>      -libkrb5-3 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>      -libkrb5support0 1.17-3+deb10u2 amd64
>      +libk5crypto3 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>      +libkrb5-3 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>      +libkrb5support0 1.17-3+deb10u3 amd64
>      -libmariadb3 1:10.3.29-0+deb10u1 amd64
>      +libmariadb3 1:10.3.31-0+deb10u1 amd64

>
> BTW, the version in chimaera (and later) also includes a section that
> lists the packages with configuration changes and includes the command
> line invocation that triggered the changes.
>
> Oh, I've also made a few changes to record package changes if nothing
> below /etc has changed.
>
> Hope this helps,
> --
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Many thanks.

I think the piping to sort alone is good enough that it should be implemented upstream. I wonder if there is any special ordering to the original non-sorted output as I can’t now see why you would want it unsorted?

--
Tom