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Date:      Sat, 23 Aug 1997 21:22:26 +0300 (EET DST)
From:      Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
Cc:        A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Checking the integrity of system files 
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.96-heb-2.07.970823212014.5099B-100000@actcom.co.il>
In-Reply-To: <9558.872358868@time.cdrom.com>

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On Sat, 23 Aug 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:

> > Is there any way, barring parsing the output of `make install' to 
> > or `make release' to determine the list of `current' files on a system?  
> > 
> > I'm looking at a registry of files maintaining sizes, permissions, checksums
> > of files, against which I can check a system.
> 
> This is a problem which we're also trying to solve for distributions
> (or a newer package format which replaced the old "split tarball"
> distribution format) since you need the same information for upgrades.
> 
> My impression would be that we'd hack the install rules to also
> "register" things installed through /usr/src.
> 
> 					Jordan
>

Are you considering to move to RPM-like package management? 

  Alexander Indenbaum
  baum@actcom.co.il




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