Hello, I want to bring up a couple of issues I've noticed for a while
concerning the checksums provided for blender's source downloads.
The first, quite minor, issue is that there is no actual download link for the
md5sum file. My workaround so far is to copy the link to the mirror I use, and
edit out the tarball to see the directory of blender releases and their
checksum files. It would be nice if the link was provided for you, though :) .
The second, more serious, issue is that the checksum in the file is formatted
incorrectly. It should either be in the GNU `md5sum` style, which is
510f47f0b79a5dd85c2ce498d5fa898c blender-2.71.tar.gz
, or the BSD `md5` style, which is
MD5 (blender-2.71.tar.gz) = 510f47f0b79a5dd85c2ce498d5fa898c
. However, blender currently stores its checksum as so:
(blender-2.71.tar.gz) = 510f47f0b79a5dd85c2ce498d5fa898c
This missing "MD5" makes it impossible for my `md5sum` program to properly
parse the file. Either of the valid formats are fine by me, as either of them
are understood by `md5sum`.
I hope these two issues will be easy enough to fix. Thanks for continuing to
work on blender!
lue
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