Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 16:03:00 -0500 From: Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org> To: "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru> Cc: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/23528: update md5 for databases/gigabase (by maintainer) Message-ID: <20001213160300.A5844@peitho.fxp.org> In-Reply-To: <20001213221002.A50431@freebsd.org.ru>; from osa@freebsd.org.ru on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:10:02PM %2B0300 References: <200012131820.eBDIK2Q00480@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001213221002.A50431@freebsd.org.ru>
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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:10:02PM +0300, Sergey A. Osokin wrote: > On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:20:02AM -0800, Peter Pentchev wrote: > > > > Would you by any chance happen to have the old distfile around, so you > > can compare the two and see what changed to change the checksum? It is > > very probable that nothing important changed, just a reroll, or maybe > > a minor patch added; but there have been cases in the past that MD5 > > checksum changes have indicated backdoored distribution sites with fake > > distribution tarballs - I believe that was the reason the MD5 checksums > > were introduced in the first place :) > > > > G'luck, > > Peter > > AFAIK author of this software sometimes, after released a new version, > make some changes on. Also i check for build his package for build/install etc. > Just grab the old one from ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/pub/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/ -- Chris D. Faulhaber - jedgar@fxp.org - jedgar@FreeBSD.org -------------------------------------------------------- FreeBSD: The Power To Serve - http://www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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