Mark Carroll said: > Being of the belief that a fresh reinstall can help to spring-clean my > machine, my usual approach to backups is to preserve my package > selections and the files that I've added (e.g. in /home/) and modified > (e.g. in /etc/) that wouldn't be recovered in a simple package > reinstallation. > > I see that dpkg can tell me about associations between files and > packages. Can I somehow get a list of the md5sums of the package > maintainers' version of the files so I can tell if they were modified? > Maybe things aren't as simple as I'm imagining?
I think debsums is what you want(its a package). though last I heard not every debian package came with md5sums on the files, so it may not be 100%. "Description: Verify installed package files against MD5 checksums. debsums can verify the integrity of installed package files against MD5 checksums installed by the package, or generated from a .deb archive. " nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
