Osamu Aoki wrote: > True but debsums can address these issues by system administrator > touch-ups as documented in manpage using: > > * /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/90debsums (debsums >= 2.0.7) > * debsums_init(8) (debsums >= 2.0.34 @ 2007)
It's not uncommon to be given an existing system and want to verify that no files were modified by its creator, and the current lack of md5sums files for a few packages prevents using debsums to do that. (The most common case is probably buying a Debian VM from a hosting company.) -- see shy jo
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