fmtree: line 0: unknown keyword sha256digest

[David Christensen]

On 2020-01-15 12:03, Kevin P. Neal wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2020 at 11:47:48AM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
>> freebsd-questions:
>>
>> I am migrating data between machines and operating systems (Debian 9 and
>> FreeBSD 12.1) and would like to do file integrity checking:
> 
>> The equivalent tool is pronounced fmtree(8) on Debian (package
>> freebsd-buildutils).  It does not seem to understand the sha256digest
>> keyword (?):
>>
>> https://manpages.debian.org/stretch/freebsd-buildutils/fmtree.8.en.html
> 
> It sounds like their version of mtree is out of date. It may not be able
> to compare file contents.

Thanks for the reply.  :-)


Stretch appears to be at least one version behind:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=freebsd-buildutils&searchon=names&suite=all&section=all


And, I do not see a backport:

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=freebsd-buildutils&searchon=names&section=all&suite=stretch-backports


I'm trying to decide if/ how to build from source.


> Do they have the md5 command, or any of the other commands in FreeBSD's
> md5 man page?
> 
> find ${startdir} -type f -print | sort | xargs md5 > orig.txt
> 
> Repeat on the new machine:
> find ${startdir} -type f -print | sort | xargs md5 > new.txt
> 
> Then diff orig.txt and new.txt

FreeBSD:

2020-01-15 12:44:31 dpchrist at soho ~
$ touch empty

2020-01-15 12:44:33 dpchrist at soho ~
$ md5 empty
MD5 (empty) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e


On Debian, md5 is pronounced "md5sum" and requires the --tag option to 
obtain BSD-style output:

2020-01-15 12:43:55 dpchrist at po ~
$ touch empty

2020-01-15 12:44:59 dpchrist at po ~
$ md5sum -b --tag empty
MD5 (empty) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e


David