On Tue, 2008-08-12 at 20:44 -0300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Aniruddha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.08.12.2023 -0300]: > > If I understand your correctly I can install deb from any 3rd party > > provider without fear of b0rking my system. If this is true I don't > > understand why you warn > > against checkinstall. > > checkinstall is used to create deb files and it's broken. > > If you install a third party deb, you should inspect its contents > exactly to make sure it doesn't touch files in /etc. Also check the > hooks. If there are no problems, then it's probably safe. >
Thanks, I'm beginning to understand now. To make it more concrete I've written down what I think is the correct procedure to check deb files: 1) Run 'dpkg-deb -e *.deb' and read postinst, postrm, preinst, prerm to check if it contains the sentence '/etc'. 2) Run 'dpkg-deb -x *.deb' and check if doesn't overwrite anything in ' /etc' (or other important locations). Is this correct? Thanks! -- Regards, Aniruddha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
