From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 9 05:49:42 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id FAA08504 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 05:49:42 -0700 Received: from orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil ([158.9.11.65]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id FAA08491 ; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 05:49:24 -0700 Message-Id: <199506091249.FAA08491@freefall.cdrom.com> Received: by orion.stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA065451930; Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:45:30 -0400 From: william pechter ILEX Subject: Re: net.errors getting ALPHA To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Fri, 9 Jun 1995 08:45:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: FreeBSD-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD-hackers) In-Reply-To: <7116.802665775@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jun 8, 95 07:42:55 pm Reply-To: pechter@sesd.ilex.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1159 Sender: hackers-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > > It was a really bad idea to remove the checksums from all of the dists... > > We need them back in, as well as for the install process to verify ALL > > checksums before committing to anything. > > Sorry, the checksums will come back, but it was far too difficult to > implement for 2.0.5. 2.1R, yes. 2.0.5R, no. If you contest the > degree of difficulty then by all means, look at the sources in > /usr/src/release/sysinstall and send me appropriate context > diffs.. :-) > > For now, you need to have a reasonably reliable transfer medium or all > bets are off. Can't they be kept in a file in the 2.0.5-RELEASE directory so we can manually check them against what we FTP from the net. I'm not looking for them in sysinstall -- just for the ftp to my site here. I'll build floppies or tape -- but I want to be sure what I'm cutting to tape or disk is good. Bill ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Pechter |Systems Administrator | N2RDI Ilex Systems |170 Patterson Ave | Shrewsbury, New Jersey 07702 908-532-2369 |pechter@sesd.ilex.com | pechter@stars.sed.monmouth.army.mil