Re: md5 package summaries on ftp server (was Re: System integrity)
On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 12:15:30AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
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> Since not every package uses the md5sum file why don't you compute the md5
> directly from the tar file (dpkg-deb -fsys-tarfile or some such)? That way
> it works for all packages.
>
> Jason
Um...the script does that. It uses a DEBIAN/md5sums file if it exists,
otherwise extracts the data from the deb file and creates the md5sums from
that (excluding conf files).
Chris
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