On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 11:38:22AM -0400, Rob Mahurin wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 11:31:25PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote: > > Why does dpkg not have a way to check the cksum's of the package's > > contents. I deleted a bunch of man pages, and now I find myself > > having to write perl scripts to coerce dpkg into releasing the > > information about missing files. And even then, I won't know if a > > file is really undamaged. > > Good idea --- maybe a "dpkg --check-corrupted" to see if a supposedly > installed package has been damaged or had components removed. I'm not > a coder at all, but maybe somebody else who reads this post is. > > A temporary hack would be, when you have a man page go missing, do a > dpkg --remove package; apt-get install package. Until you need the > page, don't worry about it.
Umm, how about installing debsums and read the manpage. Ben
