Re: files in install tarballs

[Heikki Korpela <heko@saitti.net>]

On 1 May 2001, Brian J. Kifiak wrote:

> > Is there a record somewhere of which of these are installed?
> I don't know of a list of originally installed packages, no.
> However, you could possibly make a ``best guess'' of currently
> installed packages -- assuming that the set lists don't have
> duplicates; I haven't checked -- by checking for the existance of
> one of the files in each of the set lists.

Or, much better, check the existence and md5 checksums of the files
that are included in a .tgz.

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