On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 09:20:41AM -0400, Jesse G Warford wrote: > How do I ask dpkg to display the file sizes of files in a package ? > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > > As others have mentioned, dpkg doesn't keep track of file sizes. Another method of verifying the integrity of a binary is to use md5. For the uninitiated, md5 generates a checksum unique to a specific file. It is possible to modify the binary without changing the file size :-).
The only caveat is that about half of the packages I have installed actually contain md5 information. For those that do, you can check very easily, by doing "cd /; md5sum -cv /var/lib/dpkg/info/<package-name>.md5sums" Anyone know why more packages don't have MD5 sums? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] webmaster - http://www.mschess.org
