Re: Use MD5 to check packages
BC == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BC Or you could install the debsums package which will also let you create BC .md5sum files for packages that don't have them. How do you do that? There is nothing in the manpage or in /usr/doc/debsums about this. Ciao, Martin
Use MD5 to check packages
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:20:41AM -0400, Jesse G Warford wrote: How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null As others have mentioned, dpkg doesn't keep track of file sizes. Another method of verifying the integrity of a binary is to use md5. For the uninitiated, md5 generates a checksum unique to a specific file. It is possible to modify the binary without changing the file size :-). The only caveat is that about half of the packages I have installed actually contain md5 information. For those that do, you can check very easily, by doing cd /; md5sum -cv /var/lib/dpkg/info/package-name.md5sums Anyone know why more packages don't have MD5 sums? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
Re: Use MD5 to check packages
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:43:18AM -0500, Stephen Pitts wrote: The only caveat is that about half of the packages I have installed actually contain md5 information. For those that do, you can check very easily, by doing cd /; md5sum -cv /var/lib/dpkg/info/package-name.md5sums Or you could install the debsums package which will also let you create .md5sum files for packages that don't have them. Only problem with debsums is it does not follow diversion right now.
