Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 06:46:32 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> To: Yen-Ming Lee <leeym@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/www/MT distinfo Message-ID: <20031204144632.GA79714@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20031204075659.GA50013@utopia.leeym.com> References: <200312040729.hB47TOQ5056511@repoman.freebsd.org> <20031204073837.GA2965@webcom.it> <20031204075659.GA50013@utopia.leeym.com>
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--PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:57:00PM +0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote: > On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 08:38:37AM +0100, Andrea Campi wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 11:29:24PM -0800, Yen-Ming Lee wrote: > > > It seems that MASTER_SITES release rerolled distfile. > > > So, update md5 checksum correspondingly. > > > =20 > > > Sorry, due to license, users can only fetch the distfile from MASTE= R_SITES > > > by themselves. Therefore I have no idea about what's different betw= een > > > the latest distfile and the previous one. > >=20 > > Excuse me?? What in the license forbids Yen-Ming Lee (a user) from fetc= hing > > the distfile and diffing it with the previous version? > >=20 > > Sounds weird... >=20 > No.. >=20 > I can't fetch the previous distfile and the latest one from offcial site, > it's rerolled, using the same filename. >=20 > Due to the license, no other sites can legally host the distfile, so when= I > found that the distfile checksum mismatch, I can only download the latest= one. As it discusses in the committer's guide, when this happens you're supposed to ask around for someone who has the distfile that you can compare against. Kris --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/z0jIWry0BWjoQKURAo7+AJ0a0EDBii0jHpWOmkZ4eUCpf3H7/ACg9jQX 8A+Z/wgzRaarF0F/tCelBQc= =AVde -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PNTmBPCT7hxwcZjr--
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