On Fri, 08 Dec 2006 07:10:32 +1300 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am still waiting for someone to answer my core question: what > conditions need to be met to get a GNU md5sum installed as > /usr/bin/md5sum on Debian 3.1, i.e. what are the steps to achieve this. > A beer at The Hop next Tue for the first one with the answer. Another > beer for the answer to my second (interest) question. As has already been answered dpkg -S tells you if /usr/bin/md5sum belongs to dpkg, if it does then you can use /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils, which is the GNU version. As you say, coreutils must be present, so /usr/bin/md5sum.textutils should always be there if /usr/bin/md5sum is the dpkg version. Which doesn't quite answer your question. I think the answer to your question actually lies in Matt Gregan's reply. I think he stated that the behaviour you saw was now seen as a bug, and somwehre along the line it has been fixed so that /usr/bin/md5sum in an up to date debian system is the GNU version. Finding quite which version of coreutils/dpkg this change was made in will give you the answer to your question.
