Re: apt archive verification tool
On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 10:09 AM, peter green wrote:
> After a recent data corruption incident I have determined it would be very
> useful to have a tool that would crawl through an apt archive. Create a list
> of files and checksums and then verify that all the files actually match the
> checksums.
The derivatives census code does this, but only for source packages
and it does that by downloading all the source files and comparing
them with the apt metadata.
> Does such a tool already exist or do I need to write one?
The census code might be useful as an illustration but I think it
would be better to write a new tool for the purpose.
If the apt repository is managed by reprepro, you can use the checkpool command.
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