On Mon, Feb 09, 1998 at 04:10:29PM -0600, Rob Browning wrote:
> > Note, that md5sums was only introduced by deb-make some time ago and never
> > has been widely discussed. AFAIR, a better solution than md5sums files
> > would be to store more information about the unpacked files, as setuid
> > bits, etc.
> Yes, it would be nice if the .list files actually contained something
> like the output of "find -ls". It would make checking to see if you
> accidentally screwed something up a little easier. Thought I'm not
> sure if the benefit would outweigh the cost. This would make them
> much bigger unless they could be gzipped.
If we just added the mode (because size changes will be
detected by md5), that would add ("0644"+delimiter) five
bytes per file. But that does not include the owner & group.
Of course, a better solution would be something akin to
suidmanager -- those packages that need it would use it,
less important, non-critical, wouldn't.
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