From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Sep 28 3:24:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.sunesi.net (ns1.sunesi.net [196.15.192.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFA1A37B43C for ; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 03:21:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nbm by ns1.sunesi.net with local (Exim 3.03 #1) id 13eanv-000NXI-00; Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:20:39 +0200 Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:20:39 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feature request for ports subsystem Message-ID: <20000928122039.A90445@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <002301c02902$4061f990$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <002301c02902$4061f990$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:12:00AM -0400 Organization: Sunesi Clinical Systems X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386 X-URL: http://rucus.ru.ac.za/~nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu 2000-09-28 (00:12), Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > What I was wondering is if anyone has though about adding mtree support to > > the ports subsystem? The existing PLIST system is good for determining > the > > files and directories that belong to a port/package, but don't provide > > enough information for the purposes of security auditing. If an mtree > file > > was generated during the installation process of a port/package, then it > > could be used to validate the installation of that port/package in the > > future. > > > > I've been tinkering with this myself, but if anyone expresses more of an > > interest, then I will try to make my contributions robust enough to become > > part of the ports subsystem. If you take a look inside of /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS, you already have a md5 of each file in there. Maybe you should just add a user, group, permissions, and stuff information in there too. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner Sunesi Clinical Systems nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message