Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?
> > Does anyone have dpkgcert.deb? If it's unavailable, such a thing
> > can't be that hard to write...
>
> And, once written, incorporation into the Debian-Package-Creator package
> (Sorry, I've forgotten the official name ta the moment) wouldn't seem
> much of a challenge, either.
>
It's one line of shell programming.
(cd debian/tmp; md5sum `find . -type f -print`) > debian/tmp/DEBIAN/md5sums
Programs built with "debmake" do this automaticaly. The last time it was
proposed to put this in "dpkg-deb", I think Ian Jackson objected that it
was very slow. That was a long time ago. We should probably put it in.
Thanks
Bruce
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