Great! Something like this would be good to know for every JAR where
the Maven hash is different.

--emi


On Wed, Oct 11, 2017 at 12:11 PM, John McDonnell
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I took a look using a tool called DeltaWalker and the only differences
> between the 2 are:
> The new version contains 2 additional files META-INF/ECLIPSE_.SF and
> META-INF/ECLIPSE_.RSA and the file META-INF/MANIFEST.MF has SHA-1
> signatures for each class found in the JAR.
>
> The class files themselves are the same between both jars.
>
> Regards
>
> John
>
>
>
>
> On 11 October 2017 at 08:47, Emilian Bold <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> It seems important to me to double-check binary dependencies where only the 
>> Maven hash changes, especially for code that's support to talk to remote 
>> servers.
>>
>> So an actual diff between JAR should be reviewed and posted.
>>
>> For this particular git JAR were only some META-INF signatures added or do 
>> .class files differ?
>>
>> --emi
>>
>> Pe 11 oct. 2017, la 08:35, Antonio <[email protected]> a scris:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 11/10/17 00:59, John McDonnell wrote:
>>>>>> 2.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There's 1 external dependency here:
>>>>>> B580E446B543A8DD2F5AA368B07F9C4C9C2E7029
>>>>>> org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r_nosignature.jar
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm not sure about the nosignature part, but I can find[1] this
>>>>>> version which I guess is the same one, but when I change the
>>>>>> binaries-list file to use
>>>>>> B580E446B543A8DD2F5AA368B07F9C4C9C2E7029
>>>>>> org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit:3.6.2.201501210735-r
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I got an error as the hash was wrong and had to change it to be:
>>>>>> 47D59DFFB5F02470CCFB6C1A5A31B6040A1636E5
>>>>>> org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit:3.6.2.201501210735-r
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Should I be viewing this as a potential question mark, or is it okay?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Enter the SHA-1 Checksum at the bottom of this page:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://search.maven.org/#advancedsearch
>>>>>
>>>>> And doublecheck that the version (name, etc.) is correct.
>>>> Nope, that hash didn't return anything from that search tool.
>>>
>>> This is confusing, I know, so please let me try to explain myself again.
>>>
>>> It's normal that the original SHA1 sum (B580E446B54... ) is NOT in maven 
>>> central. This is so because ages ago the original jar binary file was 
>>> uploaded to the NetBeans repository by the NSA/KGB/CIA guys :-D.
>>>
>>> The idea is to look up the jar again in maven central and fetch a proper 
>>> binary hash sum. The error suggests (47D59DF...).
>>>
>>> What I meant when I said "doublecheck that the version is correct" is that 
>>> we should now check this new checksum in the 
>>> http://search.maven.org/#advancedsearch page. If we do so we get [1], which 
>>> looks correct (same artifact name, same version) for this binary.
>>>
>>> So now we can get rid of that NSA/KGB binary that was once placed there in 
>>> the NetBeans repository (with that B580E... checksum), and replace it with 
>>> one from Maven central (with that 47D59DF... checksum). This is safer, 
>>> because NSA/KGB have new hacking techniques and do deliver now new official 
>>> binaries from maven central. :-D
>>>
>>> So, to summarize, we once had this line in the binaries-list file:
>>>
>>> B580E446B543A8DD2F5AA368B07F9C4C9C2E7029 
>>> org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r_nosignature.jar
>>>
>>> With a SHA-1 sum that is NOT in maven central, and we now have to replace 
>>> it with
>>>
>>> 47D59DFFB5F02470CCFB6C1A5A31B6040A1636E5 
>>> org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit:3.6.2.201501210735-r
>>>
>>> With corresponds to the official maven binary, with the latest NSA/KGB 
>>> patches applied.
>>>
>>>
>>> [1] 
>>> http://search.maven.org/#search%7Cga%7C1%7C1%3A%2247D59DFFB5F02470CCFB6C1A5A31B6040A1636E5%22
>>>
>>>>> If the name of the jar file is different from the original entry you'll 
>>>>> have
>>>>> to update nbproject/project.xml and nbproject/project.properties. In your
>>>>> case the original file had a '_nosignature' thing there, which is missing 
>>>>> in
>>>>> the file downloaded from central.
>>>
>>> The original binary was named
>>>
>>> org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r_nosignature.jar
>>>
>>> And the one from maven central is named differently:
>>>
>>> org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r.jar
>>>
>>> So we'll have to modify nbproject/project.properties and 
>>> nbproject/project.xml to reflect this name change.
>>>
>>> In project.properties we see
>>>
>>> release.external/org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r_nosignature.jar=modules/org-eclipse-jgit.jar
>>>
>>> That should be changed to
>>>
>>> release.external/org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r.jar=modules/org-eclipse-jgit.jar
>>>
>>> (removing the _nosignature stuff)
>>>
>>> and in project.xml
>>>
>>>            <class-path-extension>
>>> <runtime-relative-path>org-eclipse-jgit.jar</runtime-relative-path>
>>> <binary-origin>external/org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r_nosignature.jar</binary-origin>
>>>            </class-path-extension>
>>>
>>> should now look like:
>>>
>>>
>>>            <class-path-extension>
>>> <runtime-relative-path>org-eclipse-jgit.jar</runtime-relative-path>
>>> <binary-origin>external/org.eclipse.jgit-3.6.2.201501210735-r.jar</binary-origin>
>>>            </class-path-extension>
>>>
>>> (removing the _nosignature suffix)
>>>
>>> To verify that these changes are correct just run "ant test" in the module 
>>> directory.
>>>
>>>
>>> [2] 
>>> http://repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/eclipse/jgit/org.eclipse.jgit/3.6.2.201501210735-r/
>>>
>>>
>>>> No worries, thanks for the advice.  I might move this to one side and
>>>> start another module tomorrow and come back to it.
>>>
>>> Ok. Let me know if you need help (but I'll be offline for a few hours from 
>>> now).
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Antonio
>>>
>>>
>
>
>
> --
> John

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