15 Sep
2005
15 Sep
'05
10:23 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 09:56:53AM +1200, Daniel Lawson wrote:
* packaging itself. .deb files are fairly different to .rpm, in the ways you can manipulate them. EG, I've yet to find a way to do an MD5 sum verification on all files in a .deb - something I found incredibly useful when trying to diagnose a compromised machine
dpkg puts a file containing the md5 sums of each of the packages files into /var/lib/dpkg/info/$package.md5sums. install the "debsums" package and you can run 'debsums' to see which of the files on your system don't match the md5sum provided by the package. The main reasons I've found for checksums not matching is config files and prelinking. John