On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 12:43:49PM -0700, Ed Flecko wrote: > Thanks Ted! > > You lost me - could you explain what you mean, "Make a list of files > affected, > and then demonstrate that their timestamps occur after the patch > publication."?
I think what he means is something along the line of keeping the output of: make -n install and if someone asks if you applied the patch show them a ``stat -x'' for each file that has been installed so they can see that the mtime is after the errata has been published. Or if you have a gold server, patch it up and generate a checksum for each file that has been reinstalled due to a patch, so you can say 'My gold server has been patched (see above) and my other machines too as you can see via the cksum/hash of the files' After all it depends on what the 'pesky people' want to see/hear. Just be creative about it. Frank. -- Frank Brodbeck <[email protected]>
