<div>Sorry Dave, I've completely misunderstood.</div>
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<div>I'm not to sure to be honest, as the packages are checked as they're downloaded, I believe. I'll certainly look into it.<br><br> </div>
<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/22/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">David Holden</b> <<a href="mailto:dh@iucr.org">dh@iucr.org</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">On Thursday 22 May 2008, Michael Crilly wrote:<br>> Well, I once installed an RPM on a deb based system. The reinstallation of<br>
> the OS was the fun part.<br>><br>> On 5/22/08, David Holden <<a href="mailto:dh@iucr.org">dh@iucr.org</a>> wrote:<br>> > On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Michael Crilly wrote:<br>> > > Debian/Ubuntu is a deb based system, not an RPM based system as I'm<br>
> > > sure you know. Try synaptic, aptitude and or apt-get (the man pages,<br>> > > that is)<br>> ><br>> > err yeh, that why I was asking..<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > dave.<br>> ><br>
<br><br>hmm, to clarify, Paul's worry was about being hacked, for those that don't<br>know rpm, "rpm -Va" verifies installed packages for owners/groups,<br>permissions, md5 sums, dependencies, modification times etc, assuming the rpm<br>
system has not also been compromised this can be quite useful in spotting<br>changes to a system, so I'm wondering does anyone know if apt-get/dpkg etc<br>has something equivalent.<br><br>cheers,<br><br>Dave.<br><br><br>
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