Re: debsums for maintainer scripts (was: Re: Revival of the signed debs discussion)
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 06:15:10PM +0000, Henning Makholm wrote:
> Scripsit Mark Carroll <mark@chaos.x-philes.com>
>
> > I use debsums to help me decide what I need to back up - if a
> > file's shipped with a package and hasn't been modified, I don't back up
> > the file, because I already back up the fact that that package was
> > installed.
>
> If you have locally modified a file shipped with a package that isn't
> a conffile (in which case it *has* an md5sum), then either you or the
> package maintainer is doing something seriously wrong.
Not necessarily. Try "apt-cache show prelink". And yes, the difference
is most certainly noticeable.
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