Re: Debian packages MD5 sums
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:41:45PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote:
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:54, Scott Henson wrote:
> > > Try debsums. Not all packages have it, but some do.
>
> I keep seeing this statement often, but I must not be understanding it
> completely.
>
> If I do:
>
> $ zless Packages.gz | egrep "^Package: " | wc -l
> 8907
>
> $ zless Packages.gz | egrep "^MD5sum: " | wc -l
> 8907
Those aren't related to debsums. The MD5sum: lines in package files sum
the whole package (the .deb); the quoted text above refers to 'md5sums'
files in the control areas of packages, installed in
/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums, that sum individual files in the package.
Cheers,
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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