"Ian C. Sison" wrote:
>
> Curious. Does the debian package system maintain stuff like MD5
> signatures for the files, as well as version and release information? In
> what format is it stored? For instance, if a box has been hacked, can
> youn dpkg with a switch that will allow you to check the md5 sigs of each
> file in its database?
>
I also like the option to use and check PGP sigs for a particular
package in the rpm system.
I dunno much about dpkg and just the info in various posts about the
ease of use of apt-get. I make use of the other three installations:
rpms, tarballs and cvs, depending on whether a utility is stable, has
many modifications or I need the bleeding edge version, respectively.
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