Re: md5sum proposal

[Michael Stone <mstone@itri.loyola.edu>]

On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 01:39:14PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>         I still do not see why this has anything to do with the
>  packaging system. If all you want is to ensure that the files on your
>  system have not been modified since the time you installed them (and,
>  frankly, I think you really really should also look at things like
>  /etc/hosts.allow  et al which are ven more critical), then you should
>  run a script locally that does that. 
> 
>         Why forther bloat the packaging system?

Because that doesn't do anything for the new user who doesn't discover
that he wants to do this until _after_ he thinks something is wrong. A
redhat support list can say "do x to verify your system", which has a
certain advantage over "do x to verify your system, assuming you did y
when you installed everything."

Mike Stone