On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Viktor Haag wrote: > Nicholas Riley writes: > > On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 05:04:27PM +0100, Claus Atzenbeck wrote: > > > I cannot update "launch": > > > > > > ***** > > > The following package will be installed or updated: launch > > > The checksum of the file launch-1.0.tar.gz of package > > > launch-1.0.0-2 is incorrect. The most likely cause for this > > > is a corrupted or incomplete download > > > Expected: d08953b2261f0314e632802276ac165d > > > Actual: a59702026d2c2955a7ddb85abec573ac > > > ***** > > > > > > I can reproduce this error. Any idea how to fix it? > > > > I fixed a packaging problem Ben Hines reported in the launch > > package (permissions were incorrect) without changing the > > version number, and didn't even think that there was a md5 sum > > of the .tar.gz being used. The source code is unchanged. > > > > Sorry! > > I'm glad to hear it; however, the paranoid person in me says, > "How do I know that the source tarball hasn't, in fact, been > monkeyed with by someone else entirely?" > > I'm just a bit twitchy lately, what with the whole foofahrah over > the GNU sources being corrupted...
Well, then, don't run any of my packages (of which there are very few) because I just cut and paste the MD5 that fink automatically generates. It's good for showing you that the download worked, but it's almost useless for telling you whether the sources are correct. -- Hisashi T Fujinaka - [EMAIL PROTECTED] BSEE(6/86) + BSChem(3/95) + BAEnglish(8/95) + MSCS(8/03) + $2.50 = latte ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The SF.net Donation Program. Do you like what SourceForge.net is doing for the Open Source Community? Make a contribution, and help us add new features and functionality. Click here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
