From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Apr 30 18:30:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E90F937B620; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:30:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (kris@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id SAA74733; Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:30:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kris@FreeBSD.org) X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: kris owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2000 18:30:25 -0700 (PDT) From: Kris Kennaway To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: FreeBSD Ports Subject: Re: first go at consistency checker. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, 30 Apr 2000, Kris Kennaway wrote: > This is great! I'd like to see something like this become part of the > "standard tools" One suggestion: a useful improvement would be to have a "master database" of every file which ports install, which could be used to look up matches for what might have installed a given "unmatched" file (i.e. the databse would be compiled from the ports collection PLIST files). Going one step further, it could contain the revision history of PLISTs so it can make a guess that "this file is possibly left over from foo version 1.0" Kris ---- In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. -- Charles Forsythe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message