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Re: proposed release goal: DEBIAN/md5sums for all packages



[Joey Hess]
> It's even easier to do:
> 
> dpkg --fsys-tarfile $deb | tar -C / -d

Ha.  I didn't know about tar -d.  Yes, that is even better.

> However, not all machines have the luxury of being able to store the
> orignal .debs in /var, or of being able to redownload the same debs.

Indeed, but that is unrelated to the discussion of storing a md5sums
file in the .deb. (:
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Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/

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