Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?

[Pete Harlan <harlan@mymenus.com>]

Bruce Writes:
> MD5 checksums suitable for use with "md5sum -cv" are in
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums . Unfortunately, not _all_ packages
> produce md5sums files, but you'll be able to check the ones that do.

On our server, only "ckermit" provides such a file.  Perhaps it should
be a required part of every Debian package?

And Jim Pick Writes:
> Klee Dienes <klee@mit.edu> has a package called dpkgcert that really
> helped me out - it examines every file in you system, and points out
> which ones differ from ones supplied in packages.
> 
> Unfortunately, it needs a database of "certificates" that contain the 
> per-file MD5 sums of all the packages (which I got from Klee).  I haven't 
> heard from him for a while, so I don't know where you can get the 
> certificates.

This would be just what I would like (plus a "reinstall" option to
dpkg, so any found problems could be corrected).  It would be nice if
the package could pull the md5sums out of the packages themselves,
rather than rely on a separate (possibly out of sync) database.  And
as a last resort, such a utility could generate the md5sums itself
from the packages as it worked.

Does anyone have dpkgcert.deb?  If it's unavailable, such a thing
can't be that hard to write...

Thanks,

--
Pete Harlan
pete@mymenus.com


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