On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, Brian May wrote: > On Tue, Aug 20, 2002 at 09:50:21PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > The entires in Packages files and those in the .deb must match exactly > > (ie byte for byte), otherwise it sees them as different packages. Since > > dpkg manipulates the status file and only has information from the .deb > > there is no way to force a particular contents into the status file. > > apt-get knows that it has to get the file from: > > deb http://snoopy.apana.org.au/~ftp/debian woody main > > and the md5sum of the Packages file from this source, as quoted > before matches exactly.
Er, the md5sum of the deb is not kept by dpkg after you install a .deb. Jason