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From: knarf@nasim.cube.net (Frank Bartels)
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Subject: Re: diffs and checksums
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Satoshi Asami (asami@cs.berkeley.edu) wrote:

> The only reasonable solution to this I can think of is to include a
> md5 for the original (compressed) tarball and the znew --best version,
> and let bsd.port.mk test both of them before complaining.  This should
> salvage mirror sites that do a recompression (assuming they are doing
> znew --best...if they aren't, to hell to them! ;).

Will you implement it then?

Bye,
Knarf
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