From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 11 14:38:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from be-well.ilk.org (lowellg.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.147.188.158]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E6E337B417 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 14:38:25 -0800 (PST) Received: (from lowell@localhost) by be-well.ilk.org (8.11.6/8.11.4) id g2BMcOc01952; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 17:38:24 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from lowell@world.std.com) X-Authentication-Warning: be-well.ilk.org: lowell set sender to lowell@world.std.com using -f To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: doubt on port checksum errors References: <20020311145648.D3D29CD2BB@smtp.bcn.isoco.net> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 11 Mar 2002 17:38:24 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20020311145648.D3D29CD2BB@smtp.bcn.isoco.net> Message-ID: <44sn763f33.fsf@lowellg.ne.mediaone.net> Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG F.Xavier Noria writes: > Just for curiosity's sake, I find sometimes checksum erros when building > ports (tramp-emacs21 and e3 recently, for instance). I suppose porters > perform some checks that would show that before committing... is there > any machine-dependant component in this process, or should be useful to > report to them those mismatchs? Report them. And be extra careful if you decide to go ahead and use sources that you can't verify by checksum. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message