Re: Verifying packages
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:41:26 +1300 (NZDT), Cameron Kerr <cameron.kerr@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote:
>
> >My question is: Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on
> >the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files?
>
> Hi, I couldn't find anything to do this, so I made something myself. The
> md5sums for all package files are stored in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PACKAGE.md5sums, and you can run
>
> md5sum -c /var/lib/dpkg/info/$PACKAGE.md5sums
>
> to check the static files of a package (not those marked as a conf file, I
> think). The fact that the md5sums are already stored by the dpkg suite
> would indicate that there should already be a tool for doing this. Oh
> well.
There is, "debsums".
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Eric G. Miller <egm2@jps.net>
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