[mirror-admin] is there a checksum list?

[Chuck Anderson]

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 02:14:12PM -0300, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> I'd like to verify checksums of the whole distribution from time to
> time. rsync does it when the file is pulled but corruption may happen
> later and might go unnoticed for a long time.
> 
> Is there a file with the checksums of all the other files in a given
> release? If not, are the checksums stored somewhere? Are they
> available for all files?

You can use "rpm -K" to check RPM files, and of course the SHA1SUM 
file to check the .iso's.  I use a script like this to print the list 
of bad packages:

#!/bin/sh
find $1 -type f -name '*.rpm' -exec rpm -K {} \; | grep "NOT OK"

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