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Re: packages size versus files under dpkg control



On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:37:27PM -0400, Justin Pryzby wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:33:20PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 05:30:30PM +0000, Thaddeus H. Black wrote:
> > > W. Borgert wrote:
> > > > Back to your question: I personally hate files that are not
> > > > under dpkg control, because you cannot check using debsums,
> > > > dpkg -L, dpkg -S, etc.
> > > 
> > > This raises a topic I do not understand very well.
> > > Since we are already on the topic, may I ask for further
> > > advice?
> 
> > Would there be a problem with shipping the package with a file of the
> > same name and size 0, then have the postinst generate the file and
> > replace the empty file with the new file?  That also helps keeps things
> > consistent as dpkg will automatically remove the generated file on
> > package removal or purge.
> MD5sum will be incorrect.
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums
> Justin

An excellent point.

Perhaps we can make use of some the recent research in the area of MD5
collisions :-)

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~roberto

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