[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rob Browning) wrote on 09.02.98 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > 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. Note that the POSIX.7 stuff includes an (extremely verbose) listing of that. I sent an example to -devel a few days ago (under a completely unintuitive subject - you might want to grep the body for lynx-RUN instead). MfG Kai
