Date: Sat, 31 Oct 1998 21:11:27 -0800 From: bmah@CA.Sandia.GOV (Bruce A. Mah) To: Mike Jenkins <mjenkins@carp.gbr.epa.gov> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: verifying packages Message-ID: <199811010511.VAA26063@stennis.ca.sandia.gov> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 30 Oct 1998 13:51:12 CST." <199810301951.NAA14820@carp.gbr.epa.gov>
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If memory serves me right, Mike Jenkins wrote:
> I was taking a walk on the Linux side and saw some nifty features
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
"Take a walk on the wild side"? :-)
> in the package manipulation utility (rpm in this case). One thing
> is the ability to verify a package (rpm -V package). Another is
> the ability to use the simple package name without version numbers
> ("rpm -q -i package" instead of "rpm -q -i package-1.2.3b").
>
> Any chance the FreeBSD package utilities could inherit these?
I know next to nothing about rpm, but I've done a little bit of work on some
FreeBSD ports. A couple of thoughts:
1. To the extent that a program could verify the md5 checksums of installed
files, one can "verify" a package. In fact, pkg_delete(1) does exactly this
before blowing files away, suggesting there may be a quick cut 'n' paste
solution to this problem.
2. It's possible to have multiple installed versions of packages co-existing.
Most times, this is a Bad Thing (TM), but for some packages, such as Tcl/Tk,
it's not unusual to have multiple versions on the same system. Presumably one
needs to disambiguate the two in this case. I ran into this problem when
trying to figure out which of two packages is "newer", using only the names of
the two.
> How about a single pkg command with switches for info, add, etc.?
Hmmm. "pkg -info" vs. "pkg_info" gains you...what?
Cheers,
Bruce.
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