Package: dpkg Version: 1.9.21 Severity: important Tried to compute md5sum of 4GB file:
$ls -la debian* -rw-r--r-- 1 rabe rabe 4342153216 Sep 19 14:10 debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso $ md5sum -b debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso: File too large $ l /usr/bin/md5sum* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 17032 May 16 19:50 /usr/bin/md5sum -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 13764 Mar 7 2002 /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils textutils: /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/md5sum dpkg: /usr/bin/md5sum $ md5sum.textutils -b debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso 58f2d526d1c1a8f0582f7f65e30cd2b9 *debian-30r0_NONUS-i386-binary-1.iso Shouldn't dpkg rename its "md5sum" so that the user doesn't inadvertantly invoke it in favor of textutil's md5sum? Thanks, Ralf -- System Information Debian Release: 3.0 Architecture: i386 Kernel: Linux mysystem.domain.de 2.4.18-xfs #1 Fri Apr 12 23:07:56 CEST 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C Versions of packages dpkg depends on: ii libc6 2.2.5-11.1 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an ii libncurses5 5.2.20020112a-7 Shared libraries for terminal hand ii libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2 1:2.95.4-7 The GNU stdc++ library
