#7617: include sagetex as a standard spkg
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Reporter: was | Owner: tbd
Type: enhancement | Status: closed
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-4.3.2
Component: packages | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: | Author: Dan Drake
Upstream: N/A | Reviewer: William Stein, Mike Hansen,
John Palmieri
Merged: sage-4.3.2.alpha1 | Work_issues:
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Comment(by drkirkby):
Replying to [comment:29 mvngu]:
> No, I think you can leave the MD5 check sum file as is for now as a
realization of the ideas at #329. The SageTeX spkg is the only package
implementing the integrity check ideas at #329.
Note I commented on #329 that I believe 'cksum' is better than md5, since
* The command to compute an md5 checksum is called by different names on
different systems. 'md5' and 'md5sum' are two I've come across. On Solaris
one has to use 'digest -a md5 filename'
* I suspect on some cut-down Linux distros, no such command exits - it is
not part of POSIX.
* In contrast, 'cksum' is specified by POSIX, it is portable across all
platforms as POSIX specifies the algorithm, and further that whilst not
quite such a good test as 'md5', the probability of getting a false result
is less than 2.4 x 10^-10.
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