Debian packages without md5sums

[Felix Karpfen <felixk@webone.com.au>]

By diligent lurking on this NG, I read of and tried the following
routines: 

1.  "debsums_gen -l" - which gave the following output (first two
lines):

Checking for packages without md5sums list
aalib1 akode alsaplayer at base-config base-files bc bin86 binutils

and 

2."# aptitude search '~i! ~M'" - which started as follows:

i   a2ps              
i   adduser           
i   afio              
i   alien             
i   alsa-base         
i   alsa-oss          
i   alsa-utils        
i   alsamixergui      
i   alsaplayer        
i   alsaplayer-alsa   
i   alsaplayer-common 
i   alsaplayer-gtk    
i   alsaplayer-oss    
i   antiword          
i   apt               
i   apt-utils         
i   apt-zip           
i   aptitude          
i   aptitude-doc-en   
i   aspell            
i   aspell-en         
i   at                
i   audacity          

>From which I deduce that some packages lost their md5sums during my
upgrade from Sarge to Etch and some packages did not.

The fault is mine/my setup.  My connection to the internet is slow;
hence I am reduced to using the DVDs for upgrades.  Although I procured
the "official" Etch DVD set from a supplier listed by Debian, there were
numerous notifications during the "dist-upgrade" that I was installing
"untrusted packages". And, due to my slow internet connection, I refrained
from running the recommended "aptitude update" at the end of the
successful "dist-upgrade".

Is there an alternative to "aptitude update" or do I have to live with the
missing md5sums and "untrusted packages"?

Felix Karpfen



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