On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:06:05AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 04:59:10AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > 1) What if you have partial overlap with the existing UIDs GIDs?
>
> > I'm talking about using brute force:
> >
> > Here are 5 sets of binaries.
> > The first has UIDs 792-799, and GIDs 798 799.
> > Next has UIDs 1792-1799, and GIDs 1798 1799.
> > Next has UIDs 2792-2799, etc etc.
> >
> > An install script decides which is the first UID/GID combo which
> > is open, and installs that set of binaries.
>
> Again, what if
>
> UID 794 1794 2794 are taken?
If none of the UID/GID groups are available, then the install fails.
> For md5: cannot you make that part of the installation (after you did the
> idedit magic)? For example, it is possible to do it with rpm.
Yes. But the argument is that an md5 checksum from an install-only
read-only medium like CDROM is preferable to an installation specific
md5 checksum.
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