Module drift 

HELIX Drift: how a machine has moved away from a saved baseline or a workstation profile. A baseline records what was installed, the configuration files catalog entries write (by checksum, never their contents), a few machine settings and the entries HelixForge ran there. Comparing names what is missing, changed or new, and which entry would put a missing part back; nothing here changes the machine.

Structs

Applied

An entry that ran, and when (Unix seconds).

Baseline

A saved state of a machine.

Difference

One difference.

FileRecord

One configuration path as it was.

Recorded

An installed entry: its id, and where from and which version.

Report

What a comparison found.

Sources

Everything a capture or a comparison reads; tests supply their own.

Enums

BaselineError

Why a baseline cannot be used.

FileKind

Kind

What kind of difference.

Constants

FORMAT

The baseline file format this version writes.

Functions

capture

Record this machine as a baseline. extra adds paths of the user’s own to the configuration files the catalog’s entries write.

check

Plain text throughout, ids that are ids and paths HelixForge compares: a shared file could otherwise carry escape sequences into the terminal.

compare

Compare the machine with a baseline.

compare_profile

Compare the machine with a profile: whether each entry it names is installed, its files are there, or HelixForge has run it here.

dir

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/helixforge/baselines, or under ~/.config.

find

Find a saved baseline by its name or slug.

load_all

The baselines in directory, newest first, each with its slug; files that cannot be used are returned as problems.

read

Read and check a baseline file.

save

Save a baseline in directory under its name’s slug, replacing one of the same name. Returns the file.

settings_here

The settings a baseline records, read from this machine.

valid_path

Whether a path is one a baseline may name.

write

Write a baseline to a file, whole or not at all.