Package: dpkg Version: 1.4.1.6 Severity: normal The current example text involves calculating the md5sum of md5sum.1. This is impossible (at least until MD5 is really broken).
A better example: --- m Tue Aug 17 07:03:01 1999 +++ md5sum.1 Tue Aug 17 07:02:03 1999 @@ -42,11 +42,16 @@ .B <MD5 checksum> <filename> -So, for example, a file containing checksum for this manpage would look -like(don't worry, if the checkusum doesn't match, there is a minor -problem in keeping it up to date): +So, for example, if a file was created and its message digest calculated +like so: + +.B echo foo > md5-test-file; md5sum md5-test-file + +.B md5sum +would report: + +.B d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00\ md5-test-file -.B c6514f34ffe6e1ce146e1f17db2c0f90 md5sum.1 .TP .B -v Be more verbose. Print filenames when checking (with -c). -- System Information Debian Release: potato Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux washu 2.2.11 #2 Tue Aug 10 13:28:54 EDT 1999 i686 Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.1.2-0pre7 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses4 4.2-3.2 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 2.91.66-2 The GNU stdc++ library (EGCS versi
