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Re: Ensuring rpm integrity



On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, Gaal Yahas wrote:

> Hi.
> 
> I'm burning a CD with lots of rpms. Since I got those by ftp,
> I want to make sure they're okay before I actually burn.
> 
> The only way I could find to check rpms so far was
> 
> 	foreach nam ( * )
> 	rpm -qi -p $nam || echo $nam >> ~/bad-rpms
> 	end
> 
> Now, this looks pretty shaky, since it doesn't verify the whole
> rpm but rather checks only the very beginning of the rpm file
> (where the header info is stored - and it's not even compressed).

sorry, I searched the man, www.redhat.org and www.rpm.org, doesn't seem to
have an integrity check, this is a very gross oversight, IMHO...

Donnie, is there a better way?

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