On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 12:48:27AM -0800, nate wrote: > <quote who="Patrick Hsieh"> > > If I build my Debian box all from apt-get from official source > > hosts, is there any way to verify the integrity, say, md5sum, the > > files and directories against the original official source media? > > > > If I am not wrong, rpm -V can verify the integrity via network > > against the official rpm package. What can we do in Debian? > > if you use apt-get source -b it will verify it for you. > i know because ive tried to use that method to build modified > source packages and the [EMAIL PROTECTED](@T%# thing kept downloading > the original and overwriting my modifications.
Not really, it doesn't check the md5sums of individual files. Many .debs come with md5sums these days (in /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.md5sums if you want them on read-only media), and debsums will check those. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
