Lev Lvovsky <l...@sonous.com> writes: > Brian, > > -lev > > On Feb 13, 2011, at 3:09 AM, Brian <a...@cityscape.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Sat 12 Feb 2011 at 23:17:12 -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: >> >>> Does apt/dpkg keep track of permissions and file sizes of the files which >>> belong to a package? If so, how can this information be retrieved so as to >>> compare to existing files on the file system? >> >> Is >> >> dpkg -c <package.deb> >> >> of any use? > > Sorry, I should have been more specific - I need to audit all of the > installed packages on my system (massive file system corruption). I'm > assuming that dpkg knows the size and permissions (not as important) > of a file after it's been installed, so need to compare the existing > file to what it was originally when installed. > > I'd found a command-line piped together a week or so ago that does > this, but I can't for the life of me find it again.
You might have been thinking of debsums. That will check the MD5 sums of installed packages, but I don't know whether it covers all installed files. The checksums are stored in /var/lib/dpkg/info, so they might also be corrupt. -- Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ei7beeu6.fsf@oak.localnet
