Debian Bug report logs - #757634
dpkg --verify for all packages could print package names too

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: dpkg --verify for all packages could print package names too

Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 09:20:33 +0800

Package: dpkg
Version: 1.17.10
Severity: wishlist

Idea:
Plain
$ dpkg --verify #with no arguments
is great to find all the problems on the system.
However then one needs dlocate etc. to find out the package
which the problem files belong to.

So there should be a way to get it to tell us at the same time.

Message #10 received at 757634@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>

To: 757634@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: dpkg --verify for all packages could print package names too

Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 19:56:43 +0100

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I have an other related probelm

'dpkg --verify'     gives me:

"dpkg: error: control file 'md5sums' missing value separator"

But doesn't tell me *which* package has a problem.

I have to do this to locate this package:

for a in $(dpkg-query --show --showformat '${binary:Package}\n');
    do dpkg --verify $a || echo $a;
done

By the way it's 'gootool', an unofficial package you may find here:
http://goofans.com/download/utility/gootool

The md5 seems fine; but this is an other problem.

Alexandre Detiste

[gootool.md5sums (application/octet-stream, attachment)]

Message #15 received at 757634@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>

To: Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.detiste@gmail.com>, 757634@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#757634: dpkg --verify for all packages could print package names too

Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2014 09:38:31 +0100

Hi!

On Fri, 2014-12-05 at 19:56:43 +0100, Alexandre Detiste wrote:
> I have an other related probelm

They are only peripherally related. The problem in the original bug
report cannot be fixed w/o adding another output format, as the curent
one (rpm) is defined and does not include the package name.

> 'dpkg --verify'     gives me:
> 
> "dpkg: error: control file 'md5sums' missing value separator"
> 
> But doesn't tell me *which* package has a problem.

Ah, yeah, fixed this now for 1.18.x.

> I have to do this to locate this package:
> 
> for a in $(dpkg-query --show --showformat '${binary:Package}\n');
>     do dpkg --verify $a || echo $a;
> done
> 
> By the way it's 'gootool', an unofficial package you may find here:
> http://goofans.com/download/utility/gootool
> 
> The md5 seems fine; but this is an other problem.

It seems it's not using two spaces to separate the hash from the
filename. So that seems like a manually built md5sums file.

Thanks,
Guillem

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