Re: conffiles, pbuilder and missing md5sums (?)

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at>]

On Fri, May 07, 2004 at 03:23:34PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote:
> I thought that, before showing the "conffile changed by you or a script"
> dialog, dpkg would check whether the file was changed by comparing with
> the stored md5sums of the file. However...
> 
> In a woody pbuilder environment, when I install tetex-base, e.g., none
> of the files listed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/tetex-base.conffiles have an
> entry in the corresponding md5sums file, and some packages (e.g. sed)
> don't have a md5sums file at all (while others do have entries for /etc
> in their md5sums files, e.g. passwd).
[...]
You are mixing stuff up.
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*md5sum is only important for debsums, the
conffiles' md5 hashes are saved in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
                  cu andreas