Re: Frivolous forking

[Scott Ballantyne]

From: Sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 23 Dec 1998, Scott Ballantyne wrote:
> 
> > arrangement. The arguments seem to reduce to people saying that they
> > either can't use RPM to install qmail or they can't use RPM to do
> > security audits, neither of which sound like very strong arguments to
> > me.
> 
> That's your viewpoint.  For me, the ability to do a security - "integrity"
> would actually be a better word - audit is important.
> 

I didn't say you couldn't do security audits, just that you can't do
it with RPM. This is unix, find a clever solution to the problem. Or
use brute force: checksum the installed qmail binaries and save the
checksums on a tape or floppy. Too inconvenient? Write a shell script
to perform the entire RPM+qmail audit with a single command.

sdb