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Date:      Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:46:32 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        ports-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/www/MT distinfo
Message-ID:  <20031204144632.GA79714@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031204075659.GA50013@utopia.leeym.com>
References:  <200312040729.hB47TOQ5056511@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031204073837.GA2965@webcom.it> <20031204075659.GA50013@utopia.leeym.com>

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On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:57:00PM +0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:38:37AM +0100, Andrea Campi wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:29:24PM -0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote:
> > >   It seems that MASTER_SITES release rerolled distfile.
> > >   So, update md5 checksum correspondingly.
> > >  =20
> > >   Sorry, due to license, users can only fetch the distfile from MASTE=
R_SITES
> > >   by themselves. Therefore I have no idea about what's different betw=
een
> > >   the latest distfile and the previous one.
> >=20
> > Excuse me?? What in the license forbids Yen-Ming Lee (a user) from fetc=
hing
> > the distfile and diffing it with the previous version?
> >=20
> > Sounds weird...
>=20
> No..
>=20
> I can't fetch the previous distfile and the latest one from offcial site,
> it's rerolled, using the same filename.
>=20
> Due to the license, no other sites can legally host the distfile, so when=
 I
> found that the distfile checksum mismatch, I can only download the latest=
 one.

As it discusses in the committer's guide, when this happens you're
supposed to ask around for someone who has the distfile that you can
compare against.

Kris

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