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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2000 23:12:56 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Chris Faulhaber <jedgar@fxp.org>
Cc:        "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/23528: update md5 for databases/gigabase (by maintainer)
Message-ID:  <20001213231256.A575@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20001213160300.A5844@peitho.fxp.org>; from jedgar@fxp.org on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:03:00PM -0500
References:  <200012131820.eBDIK2Q00480@freefall.freebsd.org> <20001213221002.A50431@freebsd.org.ru> <20001213160300.A5844@peitho.fxp.org>

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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 04:03:00PM -0500, Chris Faulhaber wrote:
> 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/

Ah.. this *did* cross my mind, unfortunately I did not have the bandwidth
at the time, and promptly forgot it :)  I'll check it out, despite the
commit I just made..

G'luck,
Peter

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If I had finished this sentence,


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