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- From: markus@mwhh.hanse.de (Markus Witt)
- Subject: Re: SLS: how do we know we've caught up ?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.210149.717@mwhh.hanse.de>
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 21:01:49 GMT
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- vince@victrola.sea.wa.us (Vince Skahan) writes:
-
- [how to keep up with Linux and SLS improvements or better how to
- know if all is the newest stuff]
-
- I second that and I think one possible solution would be to put a
- file called SLS.930120 or something like that into the archives
- containing a list of all files being part of SLS distribution of
- *THAT* day with a checksum for each file, so that one could write
- a program/script to check the integrity of the distribution.
-
- Don't get me wrong, I don't talk about checking *after* but before
- installing.
-
- Also sysinstall could check during installation if the package being
- installed is ok with a list only for that package.
-
- As I think longer about it, I think there should be a list for each
- package, not for the whole distribution.
- After all, there are distributions so that you don't need to install
- all of it.
-
-
- Markus
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