Re: Tracking installs
Subject: Tracking installs
Date: Mon, Feb 01, 1999 at 04:44:16PM -0500
In reply to:MallarJ@aol.com
Quoting MallarJ@aol.com(MallarJ@aol.com):
>
> There's a nifty little program PCMag wrote for Win that tracks installations,
> and I'd like to have this functionality in Linux. Before I write my own, is
> there a utility that will do the same thing?
>
> Basically, the software gets an image of your disks, and saves copies of
> important files (the registry and such). Then you run your install, and re-
> run the program. It then reports files added, deleted and changed, and shows
> you changes to your important files.
>
> I suppose the LInux version would get your directory lists, save copies of
> files in /etc and then do the compares after installation.
>
> Any thoughts?
A non-debian method is instmon (instmon-1.4.tar.gz). Look on freshmeat.
HTH
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