debsums only does part of the job.
File permissions and ownerships are just as important to completely
verify a package.
It may not matter to "the guy at home with a linux box" but it
greatly matters to "the admin managing a large system".
Debian does not appear to cater for this latter group
My solution does.
regards
kim
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rene Engelhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Saturday, October 04, 2003 5:45 AM
> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Package verification and "/usr/bin/install" tool
> replacements
>
>
> Kim Lester wrote:
> > Although debian packages may contain md5sums it seems package=20
> > verification is
> > not available (unless I have missed something).
>
> Probably you missed debsums...
>
> Gr=FC=DFe/Regards,
