shells/bash: Checksum mismatch for bash/bash31-010.

[Edwin Groothuis]

On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:14:33AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote:
> I did a "make distclean" in the ports dir, but it worries me that the  
> checksum of this file has changed.  It is just plain bad practice and  
> style to re-release a source distribution like that with the exact  
> same file name.  It more or less totally defeats the purpose of  
> having checksums like this to detect transmission errors and or  
> compromised software (like when openssh was hacked a while back).

That is exactly the reason why checksums are useful.

Edwin
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