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Subject: | Re: New setup.exe beta and the elusive MD5 sum (Re: New setup.exe |
beta) | |
From: | Robert Collins <rbcollins AT cygwin DOT com> |
To: | cygwin AT cygwin DOT com |
Cc: | Vince Hoffman <vince DOT hoffman AT uk DOT circle DOT com> |
In-Reply-To: | <Pine.GSO.4.44.0211261256100.8424-100000@slinky.cs.nyu.edu> |
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Date: | 27 Nov 2002 07:16:13 +1100 |
Message-Id: | <1038341774.23865.424.camel@lifelesswks> |
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--=-Vnbnfm87+adOzhddfxoQ Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2002-11-27 at 05:03, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > This question has come up more than once already, so I'll take a stab at > the answer: > The explicit MD5 sum check, IIUC, is performed only when doing Install > from Local Directory to make sure the external tools did not corrupt the > downloads. If Install from the Internet is performed, the MD5 sum check > happens while the package is downloaded, and is not considered a separate > step. Go to the head of the class :}. You got it in one. Rob --=20 --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. --- --=-Vnbnfm87+adOzhddfxoQ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA949aNI5+kQ8LJcoIRAvreAJ4qqk6vEXymIT+QGKYUoA2bFobGvwCgt+dI 3snzIkK4tT6HKO+/Dx0RKik= =okQ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-Vnbnfm87+adOzhddfxoQ--
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