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