Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/05/2013 02:53, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Running my revised version of the script yields this output: > > pkg_sanity: gettext-0.18.1.1: Newer than +CONTENTS file: > /usr/local/lib/charset.alias > pkg_sanity: linux_base-f10-10_5: Newer than +CONTENTS file: > /compat/linux/etc/ld.so.cache

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
Well, I have looked a bit more at some of the files that posted about just a short while ago. It turns out that pretty much all of the remaining anomolies (i.e. MD5 mismatches) in package-related or port- related files on my system can be attributed to either (a) some person or else (b) some thin

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-13 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
So, as I have now learned (and just as the post by CyberLeo Kitsana had suggested) if one wishes to write a script to do the rough equivalent of what "pkg_info -g" does, then one has to be mindful of the fact that for those specific MD5 checksums contained in the various +CONTENTS files within the

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-11 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message <518e1a51.3020...@cyberleo.net>, you wrote: >On 05/10/2013 03:04 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > >> pkg_sanity: ImageMagick-6.8.0.7_1: +CONTENTS file does not exist -- skipped >> pkg_sanity: ORBit2-2.14.19: /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so: File failed MD5 >> checksum >> pkg_sanity: ORBi

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-11 Thread CyberLeo Kitsana
On 05/10/2013 03:04 PM, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > pkg_sanity: ImageMagick-6.8.0.7_1: +CONTENTS file does not exist -- skipped > pkg_sanity: ORBit2-2.14.19: /usr/local/lib/libORBit-2.so: File failed MD5 > checksum > pkg_sanity: ORBit2-2.14.19: /usr/local/lib/libORBit-imodule-2.so: File failed

Re: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-10 Thread Alex Kozlov
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 02:17:32PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > b.f. bf1783 at googlemail.com wrote: > > >Yes, of course, this is a basic package management feature: > >pkg_info(1) with the "-g" flag. > >(The analogous part of the newer pkgng is described in pkg-check(8) > >from ports-mgmt/

Re: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-10 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
b.f. bf1783 at googlemail.com wrote: >Yes, of course, this is a basic package management feature: >pkg_info(1) with the "-g" flag. >(The analogous part of the newer pkgng is described in pkg-check(8) >from ports-mgmt/pkg.) Thank you. I did not know about the -g option. I have just now run tha

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-10 Thread Julian H. Stacey
"Ronald F. Guilmette" wrote: > > The subject line pretty much says it all. Additional to other ideas so far, You could also make a chroot, install normal bins from src, install all your ports, ^D to exit chroot, then do a compare & strip with eg: cd chroot ; find . -type f -exec cmpd -d {} / \;

Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-09 Thread Beeblebrox
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Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-09 Thread b.f.
Ronald wrote: ... > It occurs to me that *something*, i.e. some tool(s) within the FreeBSD > panoply, *must* already be reading and/or otherwise making use of those > MD5 checksums within the +CONTENTS files. Otherwise, why would they even > be there? So my question really comes down to this: W

WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

2013-05-09 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
The subject line pretty much says it all. As I explained here the other day, numerous of my installed ports have semi-mysteriously had their corresponding +CONTENTS files just disappear. I do have a backup of my /var partition, from which I could, in theory, fetch replacements for the specific +