Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:20:39 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feature request for ports subsystem Message-ID: <20000928122039.A90445@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <002301c02902$4061f990$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from matt@gsicomp.on.ca on Thu, Sep 28, 2000 at 12:12:00AM -0400 References: <002301c02902$4061f990$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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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
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