On Saturday 06 November 2021 08:45:36 Phil Endecott wrote: > David Pottage wrote: > > I got similar results on my RockPro64, It is running > > Armbain rather than pure Debian, but as far as I am > > aware only the kernel comes from Armbain, and the rest > > of userspace is from Debian. In other words it is probably > > a Debian bug, and I don't think we can blame RaspberryPi OS > > for it. > > No, Armbian has changes to assorted things in /etc which will > be reported by dpkg --verify. I have previously asked how to > reduce Armbian to just a custom kernel with vanilla Debian > everywhere else but didn't make much progress; the Armbian > people think their changes are improvements or bug fixes. (I > would be surprised if you see hundreds of files though.) > > Here are my results for assorted ARM systems running variants > of Debian bullseye: > > AWS cloud instance: 4 files in /etc, all modified by me. > > QEMU vm: 1 file in /etc, modified by me. > > 32-bit ODROID NAS running Armbian: 19 files in /etc, about > 5 modified by me, the others modified by Armbian. > > ODROID C2 originally installed with "odrobian" but modified > by me to approach vanilla Debian with the odrobian kernel: > 10 files in /etc, nearly all modified by me. > > Nvidia Jetson Xavier NX with "Jetpack" installed over Debian: > 20 files, about 3 modified by me. > > > I don't see any evidence that there is a problem with dpkg in > Debian; all of these derivatives make changes to configuration > files and similar which dpkg --verify correctly reports. > > > Cheers, Phil.
Note that I as the OP was using dpkg -V, not --verify. Might their be a difference? Cheers, Gene Heskett. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author, 1940) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
