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Subject: Re: WANTED: Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy
From: "b.f." <bf1783@googlemail.com>
To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <rfg@tristatelogic.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.