Re: md5sums and verifying package contents
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On Friday 24 August 2001 11:58 am, Hugo van der Merwe wrote:
> Debian needs a nice way to verify and "fix" packages, I feel. We do have
> "debsums", but not all packages generate md5sums. Maybe I should start
> filing bug reports against packages that don't have md5sums? (What
> priority should that be?)
>
I'd written some scripts that found all packages which contained corrupt
files outside ot /etc and replaced those files from the local debian mirror.
Would you need such a thing? I could make that into a package called
"debrepair".
I think you may file bugs with normal severity to those packages. Are not
md5sums required? That is my opinion of course but those sums are more than
handy on a system which lots of coders use.
Thanks,
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Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr>
Comp. Sci. Dept., Bilkent University, Ankara
www: http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~erayo
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