Tool to verify installed package/port consistancy

[Alex Kozlov]

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 02:17:32PM -0700, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> b.f. bf1783 at googlemail.com wrote:
> 
> >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.)
> Thank you.  I did not know about the -g option.
For added convenience you can use periodic/security/460.chkpkgsum
(porttools) or periodic/security/460.pkg-checksum (pkgng).
 
> I suppose that I'll have to try to get to the bottom of this.  The
> script that I wrote to do this is so simple, I can't imagine that it
> has a bug that causes just a small subset of the files checked to
> come up as having bad MD5 checksums.  But anything is possible, I
> suppose.
Please investigate this further.


-- 
Alex