Re: Adding file comparison to mtree

[David Young <dyoung%pobox.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 08:08:35PM +0200, Julian Fagir wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> FreeBSD's mtree(1) has the option to specify the '-f' option twice, resulting
> in a comparison of the two specified source files (currently, our mtree only
> does file-fs or fs-file).
> I'm currently working on something where you really need this, otherwise you
> had to scan the whole fs tree twice.
>     FreeBSD's mtree: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mtree
>     Changes: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=122141

mtree(8) will not transform an input mtree to "canonical" form suitable
for diff(1)ing?

Dave

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