Re: Is Etch Stable is really stable?

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On 5/31/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:

> Assuming that your apt cache represents a significant download time then
> it makes sense to spend some time to 1) verify their integrity, then 2)
> assemble them into a repository-like unofficial CD that you can use
> during the install.
>
> I don't know of an automated way to do this, however, I think that each
> package in the debian repository will have its md5 sum listed in a file
> somewhere on the same server.  You can then calculate the md5 sum of
> each of the debs in your apt cache and verify them.  Remove any that
> fail prior to bundling them into your own repository.

Thank you Doug for you reply!
I found an md5sums.gz under /debian/indices directory on the server.
t's about 11 MB. It must be having md5sums for _all_ the debian
packages, how do I extract the ones for the packages I have? Some
shell scripting ? Any ideas?


Regards,
Deboo

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