integrity of .deb files

1998-05-15 Thread Otavio Exel
hi all, this is a repost of a message that AFAIK didn't reach the newsgroup :-( I'm downloading some debian packages that I wish to keep but don't intend to install right now; what's the best way to check their integrity? I see that dselect has a routine for doing this but wish there was a more s

(Solved) How to check integrity of .deb files

1997-07-18 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, At 03:37 PM 7/17/97 -0400, Dale Scheetz wrote: >You can use md5sums to verify their integrity. There is a list of the >correct checksum values in the indices directory of the archive that you >can use to compare with the values that md5sum gives for the packages. As Dwarf suggested, I used t

Re: How to check integrity of .deb files

1997-07-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On 17 Jul 1997, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > I suspect some of the .deb files for Debian 1.3.1 are corrupted > in my hard disk after some problems with bad sectors. > > Is there a way to check for integrity of these files with dpkg > or something else? > You can use md5sums to verify their in

How to check integrity of .deb files

1997-07-17 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Hi, I suspect some of the .deb files for Debian 1.3.1 are corrupted in my hard disk after some problems with bad sectors. Is there a way to check for integrity of these files with dpkg or something else? Thanks, E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Ve