On Fri, 2005-01-28 at 17:14, Gustavo Seabra wrote: > Serge de Souza wrote: > > > Tarjei Knapstad wrote: > > > >> I'd like to compare the packages installed on two different systems, and > >> have them presented in a nice way. So far I've done > >> > >> rpm -qa | sort > packages_box1.txt > >> > >> on both boxes and then used diff to compare them, but I'd like to have > >> the diff presented visually if possible (very much like Cervisia > >> presents diffs between CVS revisions). > >> > >> Is there any tool available in Fedora that can do this? (OK, I could use > >> the same filename for both, commit them as two different revisions in a > >> CVS rep, and then do a diff in Cervisia, but that's a bit cumbersome :)) > >> > >> -- > >> Tarjei > >> > > > > try vimdiff file1 file2 > > > > or gvimdiff > > > > Chances are they are already installed on your system > > > in my system at least, if I name the file something.diff and open in vi > (vim) it automatically comes with some syntax highlighting. Fedora comes with Kompare, a nice visual difference tool. Its on the menu in Gnome too, not just KDE. HTH Chris
