MD5 checksum question
Luke Kendall
luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au
Thu Jul 21 01:25:00 GMT 2005
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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