Re: md5sum proposal
Brian Almeida wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 02:17:04PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> > it's worth noting that Jim Dennis <jimd@starshine.org> is working on a
> > standalone auditing tool for debian. The basic idea is that it compares an
> > actual .deb file with what's installed on the system and flags differences.
> > It'll require that copies be kept of all installed deb's though, so it may
> > only be practical for people who install from CD and do little upgrading.
> Doesn't the cruft package do something like this already?
No, cruft just detects files that are not in the dpkg database.
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