Using compare.sh ?

[Erik Joelsson]

Then we need to return that functionality. It's not technically hard at 
all, just need to figure out a reasonable UI for it.

/Erik

On 2012-11-21 13:25, David Holmes wrote:
> On 21/11/2012 8:16 PM, Erik Joelsson wrote:
>> I will try to improve the help output from script and detecting of bad
>> input.
>>
>> The way it's currently implemented, it compares a "build" and not just
>> an image. -o is supposed to point to the root of a build output. The
>> usecase of comparing just the j2sdk image was dropped. I wanted to check
>> both the jre and sdk images, and am now also adding comparison of docs.
>
> Wow! That's a huge loss of usability to me :( I want to compare 
> images, not sets of images. I don't have complete sets to start from 
> and I don't want to see a report that a thousand things are missing. 
> It also sounds from that that it won't be able to compare profiles 
> because it doesn't know about them. :(
>
> I'm trying to sync up the profiles work from b60 level to b65 and I 
> just got the images target to build again, so now I want to check that 
> the jdk and jre images produced has the same contents compared to my 
> b60 build, before trying to make the profile images work again.
>
> We also wanted to use this tool to compare a new build JDK with an old 
> build JDK. But we really want to be able to work with individual images.
>
> David
> -----
>
>> The intended way of calling the script for what I think you are trying
>> to do would be:
>>
>> /java/embedded/users/dh198349/profiles/builds/b65/se-linux-i586-ea> bash
>> compare.sh -all -vv -o
>> /scratch/dh198349/profiles-ref/builds/b60/se-linux-i586-ea
>>
>> /Erik
>>
>> On 2012-11-21 10:54, David Holmes wrote:
>>> I found compareimages.sh extremely simple to use and very useful. Now
>>> we have a compare.sh in the "config" directory which I assume I run
>>> from the "root" of the image I want to compare, with -o pointing to
>>> the other image. But something doesn't seem right:
>>>
>>> >
>>> /java/embedded/users/dh198349/profiles/builds/b65/se-linux-i586-ea/images/j2sdk-image 
>>>
>>> > bash ../../compare.sh -all -vv -o
>>> /scratch/dh198349/profiles-ref/builds/b60/se-linux-i586-ea/images/j2sdk-image/ 
>>>
>>>
>>> /java/embedded/users/dh198349/profiles/builds/b65/se-linux-i586-ea
>>> Comparing to:
>>> /scratch/dh198349/profiles-ref/builds/b60/se-linux-i586-ea/images/j2sdk-image 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> No regressions found
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
>>> Apart from expecting regressions, I also specified -vv but there's no
>>> output. ??
>>>
>>> David
>>>
>>> PS. The "example" from compare.sh usage message still refers to the
>>> now non-existent common/bin/compareimages.sh
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> David