On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 joerg@britannica.bec.de wrote:
> (1) Normal files
> - path name relative to PREFIX
> - file content is associated (e.g. in the binary package or the file
> system)
> - meta data consists of:
>  * owner, group, permissions
>  * checksums (algorithm, value pairs, default SHA1 and RMD160)
>  * modification time
>  * optionally triggers

Is the metadata kept/maintained in the PLIST file too, or is it kept 
elsewhere (hopefully automatically)?

Also: Reading this makes me thing "mtree".


  - Hubert