Re: Verify the integrity of Debian CDs

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

alrenaud@swissinfo.org writes:

> I buyed 14 CD?s of Sarge,which is regenerated weekly.
> I want to verify the md5 of each .iso file,but I face
> two problems:
>
> 1)The CD?s were recorded in the second half of April,
>   the md5 file for the .iso files is for this week
>   snapshot.How can I find the md5 files for the last
>   month snapshots?
>   
> 2)Can I generate .iso files for each CD with mkisofs?
>   So that I can calculate the md5 and compare with
>   the published md5 file.
>   Or this approach is not effective to verify the
>   integrity of the CD?s?

'dd if=/dev/cdrom of=iso' will do, if only you had the md5sum files.

The best you can probably do is compare each deb to the md5sum in the
Packages files on the CD, from Debian (if it still has the same
version) or from snapshot.debian.org. Nothing a little shell scripting
won't solve.

MfG
        Goswin