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Date:      Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:38:00 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@freebsd.org>
To:        William Carrel <william.carrel@infospace.com>
Cc:        Erick Mechler <emechler@techometer.net>, security@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: I doubt that this affects FreeBSD, but FYI
Message-ID:  <20021009193800.GH84472@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <486282FF-DBA9-11D6-AA28-003065479A66@infospace.com>
References:  <20021009170117.GJ10532@techometer.net> <486282FF-DBA9-11D6-AA28-003065479A66@infospace.com>

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On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 10:05:16AM -0700, William Carrel wrote:

> I was talking about the base system, not ports.  I guess I should've=20
> been clearer about that.  I don't think the base system checks the MD5=20
> sums during buildworld.  But then I have NO_SENDMAIL turned on in=20
> make.conf anyway, so what would I know.

Buildworld uses the included copy of sendmail, it doesn't download an
external distfile, so there is no point at which checking an md5 sum
makes sense.  This is also the same reason why sendmail in the base
system was never affected.

Kris

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