"Michael H. Voase" wrote: > In me travels around the *nix world I have noticed the little > install program that is often used to deploy software from a build tree. > Common practice it seems. Now what if a small mod was made so that it > logged the installs to a flat file database for later perusal, and > politely ask developers to refrain from using cp to install software > from a source tree. That way, a user can refer back to the install logs > to identify what has been loaded into a system...
In other words, add hooks to the RPM database into the 'install' utility? I suppose. You'd need a new option to 'install' to specify what package the file belongs to. What about dependencies, though? Do you want to deal with them? - Dan
