Re: verifying the local files
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:48:27AM -0800, nate wrote:
> <quote who="Patrick Hsieh">
> > If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source
> > hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum, the
> > files and directories against the original official source media?
> >
> > If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network
> > against the official rpm package. What can we do in Debian?
>
> if you use apt-get source -b it will verify it for you.
> i know because ive tried to use that method to build modified
> source packages and the %#$@$(@T%# thing kept downloading
> the original and overwriting my modifications.
Not really, it doesn't check the md5sums of individual files.
Many .debs come with md5sums these days (in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums
if you want them on read-only media), and debsums will check those.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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