On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:41:45PM -0400, Andy Saxena wrote: > On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 02:57:03PM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 13:54, Scott Henson wrote: > > > Try debsums. Not all packages have it, but some do. > > I keep seeing this statement often, but I must not be understanding it > completely. > > If I do: > > $ zless Packages.gz | egrep "^Package: " | wc -l > 8907 > > $ zless Packages.gz | egrep "^MD5sum: " | wc -l > 8907
Those aren't related to debsums. The MD5sum: lines in package files sum the whole package (the .deb); the quoted text above refers to 'md5sums' files in the control areas of packages, installed in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums, that sum individual files in the package. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
