is there something similar to rpm --verify with dpkg-query ?

Little Girl littlergirl at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 21:14:15 UTC 2021


Hey there,

Lentes, Bernd wrote:

>i'm more used to Suse, so i need to ask there.
>With rpm --verify you have the possibility to check if attributes of
>the files (permissions, timestamps) have been changed after the
>installation. --verify compares the installed files with the
>metadata from the package an shows any difference.
>
>Is there something similar with dpkg-query ? I checked already the
>manpages but didn't find anything.

I know you had already gotten a response to this a while ago, but I
came across it in my inbox today and thought I'd mention this page
that might also be useful:

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/238085/can-apt-query-a-package-repo-for-the-creation-date-of-a-packages-files

-- 
Little Girl

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