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Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:13:26 +1000 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au>
Subject: MD5 checksum question
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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Message-Id: <20050721011326.9EB2A83CB3@pessard.research.canon.com.au>

Does it matter that the top-level setup.ini (that duplicates the MD5
checksums of each package's md5.sum file), does *not* do the same thing
for the setup.hint file in each package directory?  I assume the
duplication is to allow the detection of the race condition (mentioned
below).

I only noticed while updating my md5cygchk mirror-checker, to detect the
case where all package md5.sum files are correct but the top-level
setup.ini file is out of sync with the packages below.

(This happens if you rsync a mirror site while the site is being
updated.  It leads to the setup.exe error: 
"Download Incomplete.  Try again?")

I'm assuming the lack of a setup.hint line in each package's entry in
setup.ini doesn't matter.

Regards,

luke


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