./admin/diff-tar-files emacs-OLD.tar emacs-NEW.tar
- Alternatively:
+ Alternatively, if you want to use the compressed tarballs (which
+ diff-tar-files doesn't understand):
- tar tf emacs-OLD.tar | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > old_tmp
- tar tf emacs-NEW.tar | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > new_tmp
+ tar tJf emacs-OLD.tar.xz | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > old_tmp
+ tar tJf emacs-NEW.tar.xz | sed -e 's,^[^/]*,,' | sort > new_tmp
diff -u old_tmp new_tmp
If this is the first pretest of a major release, just comparing