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Date:      Wed, 13 Dec 2000 22:10:02 +0300
From:      "Sergey A. Osokin" <osa@freebsd.org.ru>
To:        Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports/23528: update md5 for databases/gigabase (by maintainer)
Message-ID:  <20001213221002.A50431@freebsd.org.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200012131820.eBDIK2Q00480@freefall.freebsd.org>; from roam@orbitel.bg on Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:20:02AM -0800
References:  <200012131820.eBDIK2Q00480@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 10:20:02AM -0800, Peter Pentchev wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR ports/23528; it has been noted by GNATS.
> 
>  On Wed, Dec 13, 2000 at 08:51:16PM +0300, osa@FreeBSD.org.ru wrote:
>  > 
>  > >Number:         23528
>  > >Category:       ports
>  > >Synopsis:       update md5 for databases/gigabase (by maintainer)
>  > >Originator:     Sergey A. Osokin
>  > >Release:        FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>  > >Organization:
>  > Russian FreeBSD Team
>  > >Environment:
>  > 
>  > 	FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE i386
>  > 
>  > >Description:
>  > 
>  > 	update md5 for databases/gigabase (by maintainer)
>  
>  Would you by any chance happen to have the old distfile around, so you
>  can compare the two and see what changed to change the checksum?  It is
>  very probable that nothing important changed, just a reroll, or maybe
>  a minor patch added; but there have been cases in the past that MD5
>  checksum changes have indicated backdoored distribution sites with fake
>  distribution tarballs - I believe that was the reason the MD5 checksums
>  were introduced in the first place :)
>  
>  G'luck,
>  Peter

AFAIK author of this software sometimes, after released a new version,
make some changes on. Also i check for build his package for build/install etc.

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