On Thu October 9 2008, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > packages & patches across distros. I'm working on a toy/tool which > would record the md5sum of every source & patch file from every > released RPM in Fedora, RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, etc. It will also > import checksums of official releases from major hosting sites like > CPAN, gnome.org, sourceforge etc. You can then correlate all the > md5sums to track the relations between packages in different distros > vs upstream, even if the package naming is completely different. This > lets you answer questions like This is great, I always planned to write a similiar application, but my desire was not big enough, that I found the time. But I also wanted to track the contents of the packages to make it easier to spot files on a system, that are not well known, e.g. malware. But I guess once your application is in a usable state, it can be easily added. :-) Regards, Till
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