Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 15:45:53 +0200 From: Stijn Hoop <stijn@win.tue.nl> To: Jamie Norwood <mistwolf@mushhaven.net> Cc: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Administrative tag a possibility? Message-ID: <20010517154553.B63938@pcwin002.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <20010517093127.A95460@mushhaven.net>; from mistwolf@mushhaven.net on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:31:27AM -0400 References: <00df01c0dec9$ef270b00$0b01000a@apollo> <3B03C76F.4403BC31@math.missouri.edu> <20010517093127.A95460@mushhaven.net>
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On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 09:31:27AM -0400, Jamie Norwood wrote: > On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 07:43:27AM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > > > That seems a little dangerous - perhaps some of the files will have > > md5 appearing in other lines for other reasons, and that would mess Read 'CHECKSUM' instead of 'md5' and your statement is correct. > > up this simple grep. Perhaps a more complicated tag in the file would > > be more appropriate. > > Not to mention that, AFAIK, once you add the checksum to the file, the > checksum would be different because the file is no longer the same, ne? > I am not aware of a way to include a checksum in the file being checked. Ehm, the original poster did the grep -v thing to avoid this, and I'm reasonably sure he also envisioned using a better tag than 'CHECKSUM' - it's the principle that's worth implementing. Anyway, I also haven't got any patches so I'll shut up now. --Stijn -- Tact, n.: The unsaid part of what you're thinking. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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