Re: dpkg feature.
On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 14:48, Just Marc wrote:
> It would be wonderful if dpkg, during package upgrade, would prompt the
> user for input in case binaries and files in a package have been changed
> since it has been first installed. This could mean added value in a few
> aspects:
You mean treating all files as conffiles.
> 1. People would know their packages were somehow corrupted during install
You could run debsums to get that.
> 2. People who modify (compile their own versions of binaries and stick
> them in after a package has been installed) will get alerted their changes
> will be lost.
Such people are going to cause themselves huge amounts of pain anyway. They
should use /usr/local for such things.
> 3. People could quicily, run a simple, non-comprehensive integrity check
> on installed packages which is important from both a security and stability
> point of view. In case someone wonders why the hell sometihng stopped
> working and finds out it was due to a corrupted binary, somewhere.
debsums.
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