Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 22:20:50 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com> To: Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, asami@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feature request for ports subsystem Message-ID: <20000927222050.A11896@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <002a01c028fa$1a566ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>; from "Matthew Emmerton" on Wed Sep 27 23:13:41 GMT 2000 References: <002a01c028fa$1a566ae0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>
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In the last episode (Sep 27), Matthew Emmerton said: > What I was wondering is if anyone has though about adding mtree > support to the ports subsystem? The existing PLIST system is good > for determining the files and directories that belong to a > port/package, but don't provide enough information for the purposes > of security auditing. If an mtree file was generated during the > installation process of a port/package, then it could be used to > validate the installation of that port/package in the future. An installed port/package does store MD5 checksums in /var/db/pkg/*/+CONTENTS , if this helps. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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