On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 01:28:52PM -0500, Mark W. Eichin wrote:
> 1) a hardware flake out [computer at a residential site with
>poor environment control, cheap IDE disks -- you know, what most
>developers have, as well as many users] that *seems* to have recovered
>cleanly.
> 2) running
On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 04:28:02PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>Well, calculation at install time doesn't prevent somebody
>modifying the .deb (which is easy), especially in the case
>of non-official sites. Does dpkg check the MD5sum with
>the one in the Packages file or in the archive itself?
>Ev
One person is against it; for reasons I have yet to understand, and I'm
beginning to have second doubts about it as well (for other reasons).
What I'm thinking is that maybe it should be the responsability of dpkg,
since it is the package manager after all. The package itself works as
is and ther
On Thu, Dec 18, 1997 at 02:19:07AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>Radu> Hmm, well my intention for the md5sums is a bit different. I'd
>Radu> like to use them to 1)check package integrity, and 2)check for
>Radu> modified configuration files. Tripwire is fine, and you'd still
>Radu> have to run t
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 11:46:29PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>
> The adddition of the md5sums has come up before. Personally, I
> think the utility is limited, given the presence of tripwire, which
> goes much further to ensure the integrity of the system (For example:
> a bad guy change
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