[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I was also looking for just this sort of package, but never did find one. | There are some similar tools, but none that perform the functions you're | looking for. | | * tripwire monitors systems and reports modifications to files, but | it doesn't | tell you what was changed, only that they were changed. | | * moninst comes close, but doesn't handle additions and deletions of files. | | I was thinking of writing a package to do this, but it'll take me | awhile, it's | not my top priority at the moment.
Here's a couple more I found earlier, but they don't really do what I want either. They're basically wrappers around the Unix "install" command and that's how they track installations: SmartInst (http://www.iae.nl/users/grimaldo/OpenSoft/smartinst.shtml) Pack install monitor (http://www.linuxos.org/Pack.html) I really don't want an "install" wrapper. That's a neat idea but there's still a lot of software that just doesn't use "install" when you do "make install". I'd like something that keeps a database of the files/links/subdirectories in specified directories and after you install something it creates a package file with anything new it finds, updates the base database and then allows you to uninstall it. I could've sworn I read somewhere that someone had written a utility like this but perhaps I'm mistaken. Gary