Re: Verifying packages

2002-02-05 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Wed, 6 Feb 2002 15:41:26 +1300 (NZDT), Cameron Kerr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: > > >My question is: Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on > >the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files? > > Hi, I couldn't find

Re: Verifying packages

2002-02-05 Thread Cameron Kerr
On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Cameron Kerr wrote: >My question is: Is it possible to verify all of the existing packages on >the system so I can tell which packages have now corrupted files? Hi, I couldn't find anything to do this, so I made something myself. The md5sums for all package files are stored in

Verifying packages

2002-02-05 Thread Cameron Kerr
Hello, I've just suffered a bit of a crash after playing with pcmcia packages, and after restarting, had some lost inodes and stuff. I was able to fix the broken /var/lib/dpkg/available by deleting it and then doing a dpkg --clear-avail, which seemed to fix the problem. My question is: Is it possi