instmon is a shell script that monitors installations and detects the files that were added or modified. It can be very helpful for packages that only come in source form. It can be used by system administrators and simple users alike.
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The most important change in version 2.0 is the ability to detect installations using strace or installwatch. Along with some more new features and the usual bugfixes, all these make this the most complete version ever.
Slightly changed the default search list (added /var/lib) and the
default exclude list (added /root), now uses $TMPDIR when set,
comparisons between version numbers are now done in a different
way, which is more correct for the UNIX world, fixed to work with
RPM >= 2.5.0, empty directories are now removed even more
aggressively, awk is now required, and instmon has to store some
helper scripts (currently one) in /usr/local/lib/instmon.
Added quite a few features since version 1.2 like tar, deb and rpm
packages can now be created, listing logs has become more
powerful, and instmon can now recognize that some logs are
same-program-different-version and do some useful things about
that. In addition, some bug and security fixes have been included,
so everyone is encouraged to upgrade.
