Re: verifying deb installation

[Wessel Dankers <wsl@fruit.eu.org>]

On 2001-09-15 04:23:17+0200, Wessel Dankers wrote:
> > * how do I get dpkg to check the manifest list of the installed packages 
> > against the files installed, and reinstall the missing ones? *

> find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' | sort | uniq | while read f
> do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then echo "$f is missing";fi;done

Sorry, that should be:

find /var/lib/dpkg/info -name '*.list' | xargs cat | sort | uniq | while read f
do if [ ! -e "$f" ]; then echo "$f is missing";fi;done

It doesn't take diversions into account, so be sure to check
/var/lib/dpkg/diversions as well.

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Wessel Dankers <wsl@nl.linux.org>

working as designed