Re: [Apachetoolbox-devel] Re: General: logging revisited...

[Kevin J. M. Jr. <km...@WP...>]

Hey Toni,


Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 4:42:14 AM, you wrote:

TM> unfortunately upstream authors appear not to think about such
TM> problems... and I'd like to know why.

There are two reasons I can think of, though one is just laziness.  But I
would imagine most upstream authors spend a lot of time coding their
software, and thus have no reason/need to uninstall it.  Another thing that
comes to mind is that just because the "install" target picks a path to put
the files into, that does nothing if the user decides to modify those files
(and save those changes) or if he moves the files to another path (of
course, this should obviously fail).  Maybe a better way would be to make a
checksum of the installed files and compare them before a delete.  If the
checksums don't match, the file was modified, and shouldn't be removed.

TM> That would be *really* great - only that I've never heard about it.
TM> Would gladly take any pointers :)

The source tarball for this package also contains installwatch.  Last time I
talked to Bryan about it, he wanted to keep installwatch in, so people could
see that the ATB wasn't grabbing trojaned tarballs or something.

TM> Do you have any links, please?

http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/

Have fun :)

TM> PS: You're posting TOFU style...

TOFU?  If that means I included all of your email at the bottom for no
reason, it's just because I typed that from an ssh session late last night,
and was just too lazy to delete the lines from pine :-P  But, if you have a
decent mail client, it should ignore or otherwise indicate, that anything
after the "-- <CR><LF>" is superfluous :)

--
 Kevin