How to compare two tarball's content

Question

I want to tell whether two tarball files contain identical files, in terms of file name and file content, not including meta-data like date, user, group.

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Answer 1

I have a similar question and i resolve it by python, here is the code. ps:although this code is used to compare two zipball's content,but it's similar with tarball, hope i can help you

import zipfile
import os,md5
import hashlib
import shutil

def decompressZip(zipName, dirName):
    try:
        zipFile = zipfile.ZipFile(zipName, "r")
        fileNames = zipFile.namelist()
        for file in fileNames:
            zipFile.extract(file, dirName)
        zipFile.close()
        return fileNames
    except Exception,e:
        raise Exception,e

def md5sum(filename):
    f = open(filename,"rb")
    md5obj = hashlib.md5()
    md5obj.update(f.read())
    hash = md5obj.hexdigest()
    f.close()
    return str(hash).upper()

if __name__ == "__main__":
    oldFileList = decompressZip("./old.zip", "./oldDir")
    newFileList = decompressZip("./new.zip", "./newDir")

    oldDict = dict()
    newDict = dict()

    for oldFile in oldFileList:
        tmpOldFile = "./oldDir/" + oldFile
        if not os.path.isdir(tmpOldFile):
            oldFileMD5 = md5sum(tmpOldFile)
            oldDict[oldFile] = oldFileMD5

    for newFile in newFileList:
        tmpNewFile = "./newDir/" + newFile
        if not os.path.isdir(tmpNewFile):
            newFileMD5 = md5sum(tmpNewFile)
            newDict[newFile] = newFileMD5

    additionList = list()
    modifyList = list()

    for key in newDict:
        if not oldDict.has_key(key):
            additionList.append(key)
        else:
            newMD5 = newDict[key]
            oldMD5 = oldDict[key]
            if not newMD5 == oldMD5:
            modifyList.append(key)

    print "new file lis:%s" % additionList
    print "modified file list:%s" % modifyList

    shutil.rmtree("./oldDir")
    shutil.rmtree("./newDir")