On Sun, 31 Aug 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> Having recovered from a corrupt filesystem due to power failure - thanks
> to those who assisted - I still have a lot of files in lost+found.
>
> Some of them obviously belong to packages like tetex, but I can't identify
> others. I would like to run through the list of installed packages
> and check every package to see whether all its files are present.
>
> Is there any tool to do this?
I recently did a check like this myself. I did:
cat /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list | sort | /usr/local/bin/skipdouble > files.Debian
find /bin /boot /etc /lib /man /sbin /usr | sort | /usr/local/bin/skipdouble >
files.Local
diff -u files.Debian files.Local > files.diff
grep ^+ files.diff > files.NotInDebian
grep ^- files.diff > files.NotInLocal
I then had these files:
files.Debian contains all files installed by packages
files.Local contains files actually there
files.diff the difference between the two lists
files.NotInDebian contains files not installed by packages
files.NotInLocal contains missing files
/usr/local/bin/skipdouble is a shell script that filters out double lines
from stdin and echoes the rest on stdout. Obviously, it only works well
when its input is sorted.
#!/bin/sh
while read i
do
if [ "X$i" != "X$j" ]
then
echo "$i"
j="$i"
fi
done
This system of file checking is not perfect or fool proof. You'll get all
files in /etc/rc?.d/, /etc/alternatives/ and others that are installed by
postinst scripts in the files.NotInDebian list, but if you want to take a
look at what is missing, this will help you a lot.
Remco
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