Re: same filename but different checksum

Daniel Stone <[email protected]> Fri, 20 Feb 2004 01:10:34 +1100

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.freedesktop.xlibs.general
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 06:06:42AM -0800, Jeremy C. Reed wrote:
> I noticed that a few packages that were previously available for download
> (in dist/ directory) were changed when now available from release/
> directory.
> 
> Same filenames but different checksums.
> 
> This breaks automated build systems that verify the integrity of the
> source downloads before using them.
> 
> In the future please consider either using new filename for the official
> release or maybe better to use a different filename for the "various
> tarballs which aren't really ready for release" -- maybe by adding
> "-beta1" etc.

Can you please elaborate on which tarballs changed md5sums?

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Daniel Stone                                            <[email protected]>
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