On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:48, Just Marc wrote: > It would be wonderful if dpkg, during package upgrade, would prompt the > user for input in case binaries and files in a package have been changed > since it has been first installed. This could mean added value in a few > aspects:
You mean treating all files as conffiles. > 1. People would know their packages were somehow corrupted during install You could run debsums to get that. > 2. People who modify (compile their own versions of binaries and stick > them in after a package has been installed) will get alerted their changes > will be lost. Such people are going to cause themselves huge amounts of pain anyway. They should use /usr/local for such things. > 3. People could quicily, run a simple, non-comprehensive integrity check > on installed packages which is important from both a security and stability > point of view. In case someone wonders why the hell sometihng stopped > working and finds out it was due to a corrupted binary, somewhere. debsums. -- If you send email to me or to a mailing list that I use which has >4 lines of legalistic junk at the end then you are specifically authorizing me to do whatever I wish with the message and all other messages from your domain, by posting the message you agree that your long legalistic sig is void. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
