Package: mkisofs
Version: 4:2.01+01a01-4
Severity: wishlist
It is very convenient to be able to check that the contents of a CD or
DVD are still intact by having an md5sum.txt file at the root of the
filesystem. Creating the file can, however, be somewhat cumbersome, and
also requires reading all the data twice: once for generating the checksums,
then to generate the disk image. It would be wonderful if mkisofs could
do it on the fly. Something like this:
mkisofs -checksum-file md5sum.txt -checksum-type md5 ...
Obviously it would be good to be able to specify other checksum types
than MD5, but even just that would be good enough: this feature is meant
for checking that there is no disk corruption, not as a safeguard against
tampering or counterfeiting, and MD5 is certainly good enough to detect
corruption.
I would not even be against creating the checksum file automatically,
unless there is already a file by that name, but this may be too fancy
for many people.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.12-1-686
Locale: LANG=fi_FI.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages mkisofs depends on:
ii libc6 2.3.5-6 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3-4 compression library - runtime
mkisofs recommends no packages.
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