FS#27601 - [pacman] Option to keep md5sums of all files (and not just the ones in backup)

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Vitor Sakaguti (vitoreiji) - Friday, 16 December 2011, 23:22 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Saturday, 17 December 2011, 01:06 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.5.4
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

It would be nice to be able to tell pacman to keep in the database the md5sums of all files of every package, so one could easily tell which files in the filesystem differ from the ones in the packages, which would be useful to determine where there are tweaks in the installation.

Of course, the default behavior would be the current one, and with the option set to true, on package installation/upgrade, pacman stores the md5sum of every file in the package in the database, which would then be consulted as needed by the user.

I see this being useful when a user is moving to a new hardware and wants to bring to the new system only the things that are necessary, but would like to be sure to look at everything he has changed himself.
Also, a new sysadmin arriving to manage a server that used to be maintained by someone else would very much appreciate this feature.
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Saturday, 17 December 2011, 01:06 GMT
Reason for closing:  Duplicate
Additional comments about closing:   FS#11091 

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