Stephen Hahn wrote:
> * Norm Jacobs <Norm.Jacobs at Sun.COM> [2007-05-24 15:35]:
>
>> PS.
>> I also have a tool that generates package info/proto files based on
>> a proto area. It is similiar to pkgproto, but it gets the
>> owner/group/perm for shared bits from the system, assumes root/bin for
>> the rest and removes write bits from virtually everything. I use is as
>> a starting point to update my package prototypes.
>>
>
> I missed this on my first pass, but now I'm curious if this is safer
> than my suggested RFE: isn't this tool required to look up every
> proto file in the existing prototype files to determine if a file is
> unclaimed, or not?
>
I assume that your system is current and has things installed with the
appropriate attributes and use that for comparison. I wrote the bits to
parse the contents file for comparison, but ended up just checking the
system. Either way, you really need to look through the results and
validate them.
-Norm
