Re: dpkg-verify?
On Sat, 02 Nov 1996 16:10:07 +0059 David Frey (david@eos.lugs.ch)
wrote:
[snip]
> I'm not sure if I understand the verification feature correctly, but I
> assume
> that he want's to check a package vs the current installation against:
> a) missing files
> b) wrong permissions
> c) wrong sizes/date stamps/link counts
>
> Now, a casual look into /var/lib/dpkg/info left me with the impression that
> dpkg doesn't record this things in its status area. Ian, is this right?
I made an attempt at solving this difficult exercise. I resorted to having the binary packages available to check permissions, size and ownership. Dpkg justs records the file list, not anything else.
I had further problems with packages which create some files in their postinst (like perl, which compiles headers).
I have still the script (painfully slow, that is) in ftp://ftp.fifi.org/pub/checkdebian
Maybe should dpkg record the permissions etc... in the info directory to allow such a tool to be viable ?
Phil.
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