ports/89466: SHA256 sums for 'accessibility/' and 'shells/'

Pav Lucistnik pav at FreeBSD.org
Wed Nov 23 21:50:57 UTC 2005


The following reply was made to PR ports/89466; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pav Lucistnik <pav at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, ed at fxq.nl
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/89466: SHA256 sums for 'accessibility/' and 'shells/'
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2005 22:45:20 +0100

 > I was totally bored this evening, so I decided to do some SHA256
 > checksumming on the 'accesibility/' and 'shells/' categories. Why those?
 > Don't ask me ;-)
 
 I assume you also obtained approvals from all affected maintainers?
 
 > I ran a `make checksum` afterwards and all MD5 and SHA256 sums were
 > okay.
 
 No they weren't. If you first created new sums then validated them, how
 could you possible detect changes?
 
 >	http://g-rave.nl/files/ports/accessibility-sha256.diff
 >	http://g-rave.nl/files/ports/shells-sha256.diff
 
 That website is dead.
 
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 Pav Lucistnik <pav at oook.cz>
               <pav at FreeBSD.org>
 
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