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diff --git a/man/deb-md5sums.pod b/man/deb-md5sums.pod new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a0139d8 --- /dev/null +++ b/man/deb-md5sums.pod @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +# dpkg manual page - deb-md5sums(5) +# +# Copyright © 2021 Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> +# +# This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or +# (at your option) any later version. +# +# This is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +# GNU General Public License for more details. +# +# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License +# along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. + +=encoding utf8 + +=head1 NAME + +deb-md5sums - package MD5 file digests + +=head1 SYNOPSIS + +B<DEBIAN/md5sums> + +=head1 DESCRIPTION + +A package declares the MD5 digests for the package file contents by +including an I<md5sums> file in its control archive (i.e. I<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 B<SPACE>) and the absolute +pathname of a plain file, one per line. + +Trailing slashes (U+002F B</>) 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, L<dpkg(1)> will +generate the matching information at unpack time (since B<dpkg> 1.16.3). + +=head1 EXAMPLE + + 53c0d4afe4bc4eccb5cb234d2e06ef4d usr/bin/dpkg + f8da2bc74cdcad8b81c48a4f0d7bb0a8 usr/bin/dpkg-deb + 70b913132de56e95e75de504979309b4 usr/bin/dpkg-divert + […] + +=head1 SEE ALSO + +L<md5sum(1)>, +L<dpkg-deb(1)>, +L<dpkg(1)>. |