Previously Daniel Quinlan wrote: > Commands: > install - install new packages, arguments are package files > check - check packages (md5 checksums, etc.) dpkg right now has no way to do this.. > list - list all installed packages if no arguments, arguments are > package names Any preferred layout? > info - return package info What information? In what format? > extract - extract contents into current dir if no arguments, argument > is extraction directory Any guarantees that this will be done safely in case if trojan packages? This can be nasty, if you consider a tar-file like this: lrwxrwxrwx something -> /etc/passwd -rw-r--r-- something If you extract that with a standard tar (the latest GNU tar is safe) this will happily overwrite /etc/passwd. If you have the recent GNU tar dpkg will be safe since it calls tar, I don't know how rpm handles that. Wichert. -- ________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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