Re: An idea for tracking software install...
"Michael H. Voase" wrote:
> In me travels around the *nix world I have noticed the little
> install program that is often used to deploy software from a build tree.
> Common practice it seems. Now what if a small mod was made so that it
> logged the installs to a flat file database for later perusal, and
> politely ask developers to refrain from using cp to install software
> from a source tree. That way, a user can refer back to the install logs
> to identify what has been loaded into a system...
In other words, add hooks to the RPM database into the 'install' utility?
I suppose. You'd need a new option to 'install' to specify what package
the file belongs to. What about dependencies, though? Do you want
to deal with them?
- Dan
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