Date: Thu, 02 Jan 1997 06:57:40 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@dimaga.com> To: "Mark J. Taylor" <mtaylor@cybernet.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CHECKSUM.MD5 values for 2.2-BETA (they seem to have gone missing.) Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970102065739.00999720@dimaga.com>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 02:25 PM 12/31/96 -0500, Mark J Taylor <mtaylor@cybernet.com> wrote: > >I remember several years back that people were complaining about how long >it takes to do a checksum during the installation, so putting it back in >would probably be a bad idea. "Several years" probably means a speed increase an order of magnitude. I'm not certain this would be a problem :) >However, putting the MD5 checksums in and optionally NOT using them >during installation sounds like a good idea (it would be a nice little >security feture, put into sysinstall's "options" screen). I agree. They should be enabled by default. Do these checksums check what is actually on the disk after install, or just the tarballs that have been downloaded? I would consider both useful. Eivind Eklund / perhaps@yes.no / http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3.0.32.19970102065739.00999720>