Historical list of installation file hashes

Brian Inglis Brian.Inglis@SystematicSW.ab.ca
Mon Oct 21 17:07:13 GMT 2024


On 2024-10-21 02:24, Sophoklis Goumas via Cygwin wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 11:19, Sophoklis Goumas wrote:
>> Is there a historical list of installation file hashes?
>> As in a file that offers the contents of this file:
>> 	https://cygwin.com/sha512.sum
>> per version?
> Nevermind.
> I've found this:
> 	https://cygwin.com/setup/sha512.sum

You have to watch as those directory file hashes are now updated asynchronously 
from the files, so are only valid and useful if that checksum hash file remote 
timestamp is later than the remote timestamps of the files in the directory.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer     but when there is no more to cut
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