Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 12:10:03 -0800 (PST) From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ports/23193: Port fix: biology/emboss (MAINTAINER) Message-ID: <200011302010.eAUKA3970146@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR ports/23193; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Johann Visagie <johann@egenetics.com> To: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ports/23193: Port fix: biology/emboss (MAINTAINER) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 22:01:37 +0200 > Do you by any chance keep the old distfiles, so you can check what has > changed? Not that it's all that uncommon to reroll dist tarballs without > notice (I've had that happen to fetchmail on me just the other day), but > sometimes this could be an indication of backdoored distributions on > compromised distsites.. It never hurts to be sure - that's just why > the distfiles MD5 sums were introduced in the first place, I should think :) Hmm, valid point! And yes, I was silly enough to delete the old distfiles after ensuring that the new ones build and appear to work. However, I was just in touch with the EMBOSS project leader, and apparently those distributions were indeed recreated due to a minor bug. So it all appears to be above board. *phew* Thanks for pointing this out; I won't make that mistake again. :-) -- Johann To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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