Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> wrote: > > RPM is a good package tool, but not great. It's not very good a > resolving dependancies. Worse, it doesn't know how to fetch anything > that related to dependancies. One thing I've been wondering, do Debian packages keep some sort of checksum on files that are installed? RPMs use MD5 hashes to verify the integrity of installed files. That's one thing I've been missing, but I might just not be finding the right dpkg option.. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ Error 001: Weak or no / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ signal detected. Upgrade \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) transmitter and retry. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011205/e6bd3fa0/attachment.pgp