Hello,

I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the
md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually
correct.

Thanks,
-Mathieu
Ps: I know this is of limited value, but I need it...


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On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the
> md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually
> correct.
>
> Thanks,
> -Mathieu
> Ps: I know this is of limited value, but I need it...

Theres the debsums package that does this.

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Oh I see, it checks installed package. So there is no tool for
checking md5sum on a .deb file directly ?

Thus whatever md5sums files shipped with my .deb will be installed and
later on, debsums will complains the md5 is wrong.

-M

On 4/11/07, Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the
> > md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually
> > correct.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Mathieu
> > Ps: I know this is of limited value, but I need it...
>
> Theres the debsums package that does this.
>
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>
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Mathieu Malaterre schrieb:
>
> On 4/11/07, Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the
>> > md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually
>> > correct.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > -Mathieu

hmmm... I am not quite sure if that's what you're looking for, but
md5sum may calculate the md5sum of any file or compare it directly
against a list.

shell> md5sum --check <filename> <list>

Where "list" is the name of a list as the output of 'md5sum -b' and
"filename" is the name of the file to be checked. You will need a sum to
compare with, course. They are in the Packages in the repository for the
up to date files there, but not in local caches.

Greetings
Björn



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Since etch uses digital signatures for packages
(http://www.debian.org/releases/stabl...tml#s-pkgmgmt),
maybe "debsig-verify" is what you are looking for?
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Björn Keil wrote:
> Mathieu Malaterre schrieb:
>>
>> On 4/11/07, Jeff D <fixedored@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Wed, 11 Apr 2007, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
>>>
>>> > Hello,
>>> >
>>> > I am trying to figure out what is the new command to verify that the
>>> > md5sums files archived in my deb file (binary package) is actually
>>> > correct.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks,
>>> > -Mathieu
>
> hmmm... I am not quite sure if that's what you're looking for, but
> md5sum may calculate the md5sum of any file or compare it directly
> against a list.
>
> shell> md5sum --check <filename> <list>
>
> Where "list" is the name of a list as the output of 'md5sum -b' and
> "filename" is the name of the file to be checked. You will need a sum to
> compare with, course. They are in the Packages in the repository for the
> up to date files there, but not in local caches.
>
> Greetings
> Björn
>
>

In each official archive here is a list of .deb md5sums at indices/md5sums.gz.
Your method may work with this list.


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