Re: Tracking installs
Quoting MallarJ@aol.com (MallarJ@aol.com):
> In a message dated 2/1/99 4:38:43 PM Central Standard Time, MallarJ@aol.com
> writes:
> > > 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?
> > >
> > > dpkg does all of this :-)
> > >
> I did a little more research on this, and dpkg does help in some aspects,
> except:
>
> 1) dpkg won't track anything done by installation scripts after dpkg does it's
> configuration.
>
> 2) dpkg won't track non-deb packages - such as tarballs.
>
> So, question still stands... any other package that will handle this task?
Look at tripwire, non-free/admin.
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