* Darren Salt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060502 19:03]: > I demand that Andreas Barth may or may not have written... > > * Brian Eaton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [060501 19:21]: > >> On 5/1/06, Andreas Barth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> Or you could create the diffdebs before upload or on ftp-master, and > >>> include the diffdebs somehow in the Packages file (so they're signed as > >>> well by the usual mechanismn). > > >> My initial view is that any delta package system that doesn't reproduce > >> the exact same .debs as downloading the package from scratch is a > >> non-starter. > > > Why that? Of course, you need all the maintainer scripts etc in the > > diffdeb, but not all the regular files. > > I wouldn't like to rely on the admin not having modified any of the package's > files (/etc aside). Yes, this shouldn't happen, but it does :-) > > Of course, if you're running md5sums on all of the package's files, this can > be caught...
One need to do that, yes of course. Together with a list of permissions. I'm not demanding it's trivial. But it's possible if one really minds. Cheers, Andi -- http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
