Date: Sun, 24 Aug 1997 12:33:34 +0930 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Alexander Indenbaum <baum@actcom.co.il> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, A Joseph Koshy <koshy@india.hp.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Checking the integrity of system files Message-ID: <199708240303.MAA00881@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Aug 1997 21:22:26 %2B0300." <Pine.SUN.3.96-heb-2.07.970823212014.5099B-100000@actcom.co.il>
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> > > 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? Not trivially, due to enthusiastic use of "install -C" > > 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. > > Are you considering to move to RPM-like package management? Can you be more specific than "RPM-like"? Yes in that there will be management tools, no in that they are unlikely to be the RPM tools. mike
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