Thanks for your replies Simons :) On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 01:48:00PM +0100, Simon Richter wrote: > Hi, > > Václav Ovsík schrieb: > > >please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian > >archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in > >a national mailling list about Linux systems. He needs this for non > >Debian system. > > The debmirror script has an option to check all MD5 sums when > determining which files need to be downloaded; this can be used to get > an existing mirror into a good state in-place (it will take ages > though), or a temporary mirror could be created (I think the MD5 sum of > downloaded files is checked always, but I'm not sure about that). > > I think the debmirror script should run on any Linux system. > > Simon
Yes debmirror is only a perl script, good point. On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 02:13:02PM +0100, Simon Paillard wrote: > Hello, > > > please, is there any utility/script, that can verify integrity of Debian > > archive? A maintainer of the ftp mirror ftp.linux.cz asks for this in > > a national mailling list about Linux systems. He needs this for non > > Debian system. > > rsync does MD4 integrity checks, so using this (recommanded) method, you > can ensure of the integrity. > > Obvisouly, it doesn't check the sums with respect to the > Packages/Release, but if the upstream mirror can be trusted, it's ok. > > BTW, it seems ftp.linux.cz is not referenced in the list of mirrors, > could you communicate http://debian.org/mirrors/ to the admin ? > ftp://ftp.linux.cz/pub/linux/debian-non-US/ can be dropped, since it is > deprecated since the release of sarge. Thanks for suggestions. > > I reply him, that it should not be too dificult to generate input for > > `md5sum -c -' from Release & Packages files using perl and can do it, > > but I think, that something must exists already. > > So, is there some utility, that can verify checksums from archive index > > files (integrity of archive)? > > I follow the discussion on debian-mirrors, the right place to find such > scripts :) > > Regards, > > -- > Simon Paillard Ok, I have subscribed into debian-mirror right now. Sorry for off topic. Regards -- Zito -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
