On Friday 08 December 2006 07:33, Nick Rout wrote: > 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.
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