Duplicated files in the pristine FC4t2 installation

Hans de Goede j.w.r.degoede at hhs.nl
Mon May 2 19:30:23 UTC 2005


Roland McGrath wrote:
> I think what one clearly wants is for rpm to maintain an installed file
> indexed keyed by md5sum.  Then you can have a tool that just uses this
> database to identify duplicates (and doesn't take forever), or have rpm do
> so itself when installing new files.
> 

Hmm, what about hash collisions, that would be really really BAD

Regards,

Hans





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