Kurt Roeckx wrote: > Andrey Rahmatullin wrote: > > Kurt Roeckx wrote: > > > There are also the md5sums files that are stored in the .deb file. > > > I'm not really sure what the real use case for them is and > > > wouldn't have a problem with them going away. > > debsums(1) aka "what packages on my system are corrupt by a recent FS > > failure" > > I know about debsums, I just don't find it useful. > > For the case of corruption I would either use backups or > reinstall the whole thing. If there is corruption it > ussually screws up more than the files covered by the md5sums. The use case for debsums is for *detection* of corruption. And neither is it a security mechanism. But it is a useful integrity check mechanism. Bob
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