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Jan.Materne@rzf.fin-nrw.de wrote:
>>Or we really could rpm something up, then <exec> something to 
>>look at it
> 
> 
> Mmmh, what can the RPM do?
> 1) add files (e.g. the program files)
> 2) modify files (e.g. config files)
> 3) environemt settings (or is that 2?)
> 
> So the scenario would be:
> - create the rpm
> - compare these modifications
>   1) checked against the content of a (unzipped) zip file
>   2) check if "our" settings are inserted
>   3) dito
> - clean
>   problem: have to backup the files for 2) before and hope that
>   no files else were modified. Or is there a possibility on *nix to
>   "undo" an installation?
> 
> 
> Jan
> 

We cant actually install an RPM; you need to be root. But there are some 
rpm commands to list the contents of a repository; we could parse the 
output and look for strings.

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