Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> check - check packages (md5 checksums, etc.)
> dpkg right now has no way to do this.. Then we remove the feature for LSB 1.0. >> list - list all installed packages if no arguments, arguments are >> package names > Any preferred layout? How about: ------- start of cut text -------------- name:<package name><whitespace>version:<package version> ------- end ---------------------------- > > info - return package info > > What information? In what format? <first package> <blank line> <next package> <blank line> ... <first package>: long format: ------- start of cut text -------------- name:<package name> version:<package version> <additional defined fields, including method for vendor specific fields?> ------- end ---------------------------- >> extract - extract contents into current dir if no arguments, argument >> is extraction directory > Any guarantees that this will be done safely in case if trojan packages? > This can be nasty, if you consider a tar-file like this: Yes, we must guarantee that if we include that option. The wrapper should fail if it is not running a safe version of tar. RPM uses cpio, which if I recall correctly, does not allow leading /. - Dan
