deb-md5sums(5) dpkg suite deb-md5sums(5)
NAME
deb-md5sums - package MD5 file digests
SYNOPSIS
DEBIAN/md5sums
DESCRIPTION
A package declares the MD5 digests for the package file contents by including an md5sums
file in its control archive (i.e. DEBIAN/md5sums during package creation). This file is
used for integrity verification and deduplication purposes, and not for any kind of
security purpose.
This file contains a list of MD5 digests (as 32 case-insensitive hexadecimal characters)
followed by two spaces (U+0020 SPACE) and the absolute pathname of a plain file, one per
line.
Trailing slashes (U+002F /) in the pathname will be trimmed. Neither trailing whitespace
nor empty or whitespace-only lines are accepted.
If the control file does not exist in the binary package, dpkg(1) will generate the
matching information at unpack time (since dpkg 1.16.3).
EXAMPLE
53c0d4afe4bc4eccb5cb234d2e06ef4d usr/bin/dpkg
f8da2bc74cdcad8b81c48a4f0d7bb0a8 usr/bin/dpkg-deb
70b913132de56e95e75de504979309b4 usr/bin/dpkg-divert
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SEE ALSO
md5sum(1), dpkg-deb(1), dpkg(1).
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