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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