Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-06 Thread Joey Hess
Winston Smith wrote: > In other words, is the check done after the download, before the > installation, or both? apt does check the validity of cached debs before installing them. If a deb is corrupt it will remove it from the cache and re-download it before installing. I don't know offhand if it

Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 05:05:30PM -0500, Winston Smith wrote: > Does apt-get check the integrity of cached debs before installing them? > For example, if I did > > apt-get --download-only install > > which downloads the package to the file > > /var/cache/apt/archives/.version.deb > > but doe

Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-04 Thread Winston Smith
Winston Smith wrote: > Is there an easy way to check the integrity of cached debs and remove > corrupt ones? Also, is there an easy way to check the integrity of the > unchanging parts of installed packages? Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote: > You can install debsums for that, > > Description: V

Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-03 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Winston Smith writes: > Is there an easy way to check the integrity of cached debs and remove > corrupt ones? You can install debsums for that, Description: Verify installed package files against MD5 checksums. debsums can verify the integrity of installed package files against MD5 c