This is the README file for ruari diff BETA version 0.14.

Ruari diff compares /var/lib/dpkg/status and a Packages file to see
what packages need updating.

This program is in a beta state, see TODO for an incomplete list of
things needing to be done.

See the file NEWS for user-visible changes since the last version.

See the file INSTALL for installation instructions.

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(This stuff should really go into the as-of-yet unwritten
documentation)

project/experimental

project/experimental does not have architecture specific Packages
files, therefore if you use for example debian/m68k you could be told
there is a newer version of a package, where there is in fact, not.

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Thanks to Rickard Aberg and Dave Cook for supplying dpkg -l output for
testing, Mark Baker and Stefan Berndtsson inane amounts of (very
patient) help with libdb and C, and Dave Cook again for the original
idea.

Ruari diff has been built and test on the following platforms :-

Linux/i386 2.0.30
Linux/m68k 2.0.29
Solaris 5.5.1 (sparc)


Ruari diff is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, a copy of
which is provided under the name COPYING, or (at your option) any
later version.

James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> 1997
