[newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it.
Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)

S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1
missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir
S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist
.M.. c /etc/init.d/hotplug
S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1


'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5T)?




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Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Avi Schwartz
Paul wrote:
After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it.
Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)
S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1
missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir
S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist
.M.. c /etc/init.d/hotplug
S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1
'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5T)?
I don't remember where I copied this from but it goes:
Verifying installed files vs. rpm:
rpm -v package_name
When verifying a package, RPM produces output only  if there is a 
verification failure. When a file fails verification, the format of the 
output is a bit cryptic, but it packs all the information you need into 
one line per file. Here is the format:

SM5DLUGT c file
  

Where:
   *S is the file size.
   *M is the file's mode.
   *5 is the MD5 checksum of the file.
   *D is the file's major and minor numbers.
   *L is the file's symbolic link contents.
   *U is owner of the file.
   *G is the file's group.
   *T is the modification time of the file.
   *c appears only if the file is a configuration file. This is 
handy for quickly identifying config files, as they are very likely to 
change, and therefore, very unlikely to verify successfully.
   *file is the file that failed verification. The complete path 
is listed to make it easy to find.

It's unlikely that every file attribute will fail to verify, so each of 
the eight attribute flags will only appear if there is a problem. 
Otherwise, a . will be printed in that flag's place.

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Re: [newbie] Urpmi advice needed (2)

2005-02-04 Thread Paul
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 18:35, Avi Schwartz wrote:
 Paul wrote:
 
 After looking at the wiki, I found the command rpm -Va and applied it.
 Part of the output is as follows (to provide an example only)
 
 S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/decoratives/fonts.cache-1
 missing/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/encodings.dir
 S.5T c /etc/hotplug/blacklist
 .M.. c /etc/init.d/hotplug
 S.5T   /usr/share/fonts/ttf/western/fonts.cache-1
 
 
 'missing' is obvious, but what are the others (e.g. S.5T)?
 
 I don't remember where I copied this from but it goes:
 
 Verifying installed files vs. rpm:
 
 rpm -v package_name
 
  When verifying a package, RPM produces output only  if there is a 
 verification failure. When a file fails verification, the format of the 
 output is a bit cryptic, but it packs all the information you need into 
 one line per file. Here is the format:
 
 SM5DLUGT c file

 
 Where:
 
 *S is the file size.
 *M is the file's mode.
 *5 is the MD5 checksum of the file.
 *D is the file's major and minor numbers.
 *L is the file's symbolic link contents.
 *U is owner of the file.
 *G is the file's group.
 *T is the modification time of the file.
 *c appears only if the file is a configuration file. This is 
 handy for quickly identifying config files, as they are very likely to 
 change, and therefore, very unlikely to verify successfully.
 *file is the file that failed verification. The complete path 
 is listed to make it easy to find.
 
 It's unlikely that every file attribute will fail to verify, so each of 
 the eight attribute flags will only appear if there is a problem. 
 Otherwise, a . will be printed in that flag's place.
 

many thanks, just what I was after.



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