On Sunday 07 November 2021 03:19:09 deloptes wrote: > > Note that I as the OP was using dpkg -V, not --verify. Might their > > be a difference? > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett. > > Gene always check the -h vs --help or man page > > dpkg --help > -V|--verify [<package>...] Verify the integrity of package(s). > > package is optional and if not provided would check all packages > installed but it seems this is broken > > BR
well, I'm getting an almost sensible listing from the wintel boxes, although the attributes reported are garbage in all cases of an error. an ls -l shows the attributes correctly. And it may be timing or buffer related as it goes down if the "|wc -l" is added, the errors are less. And still somewhat randomized, 80 something on the pi yesterday and 74 today and only 4 pkgs have been updated in the meantime. All instances were as sudo of coarse. So I believe the --verify or -V, option needs some tlc in all 6 cases here. 5 wintel boxes and a rpi4b, all heavily customized, with old but realtime kernels. but not the same kernels as the pi is totally home brewed including the install method which on a u-boot system is totally undocumented so I had to invent my own method. I put it up on my web page so I might not be the only one using it. Certainly less than 5 users on this whole ball of rock and water. And totaly against armbian policy, I am blacklisted from their forum because of it. The NIH syndrome's finest example. It seems to really get an upset tummy if the file perms are 0600 like some of amanda's stuff that can only be read by amanda, so even root can't see them. Which is correct but the error msg isn't exactly accurate, and in every case on 6 machines here, the attributes reported are all wrong and identical, pulled out of of very thin air. 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>
