Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 03:15:58 +0000 From: "b.f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.com> Subject: Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy Message-ID: <CAGFTUwOF8tfB8pGaX6FSZknv6P=vE%2BKpXczry03QdY5NapKOjA@mail.gmail.com>
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Ronald wrote: ... > It occurs to me that *something*, i.e. some tool(s) within the FreeBSD > panoply, *must* already be reading and/or otherwise making use of those > MD5 checksums within the +CONTENTS files. Otherwise, why would they even > be there? So my question really comes down to this: What pre-existing > software tools are available that can and do check the MD5 checksums, as > given the the +CONTENTS file(s), of various files associated with some > given installed port or package? ... Yes, of course, this is a basic package management feature: pkg_info(1) with the "-g" flag. (The analogous part of the newer pkgng is described in pkg-check(8) from ports-mgmt/pkg.) b.
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