[Slackbuilds-users] PaleMoon 26.5.0 md5sum error

Christoph Willing chris.willing at iinet.net.au
Fri Nov 4 11:36:36 UTC 2016


On 04/11/16 20:55, Matteo Bernardini wrote:
> 2016-11-04 11:47 GMT+01:00 Christoph Willing <chris.willing at iinet.net.au>:
>> On 04/11/16 19:02, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>>>>
>>>> While trying to build PaleMoon 26.5.0, I am suffering from an md5sum
>>>> error
>>>> on 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> The Slackbuild's md5sum is d7578845894fb58470b54d569615d32f but I see
>>>> 5556f1a1d668a0d1d71387a6e66b53ca
>>>>
>>>> I've run my SBo wrapper script twice now.
>>>>
>>>> Is it me or does the md5sum fail for Y'All too ?
>>>
>>>
>>> Yes, it's incorrect
>>> i have fixed it on my branch
>>>
>>
>> Interestingly, the original md5sum works for me for a version downloaded
>> around 1st October. Downloading it again just now, the new version (although
>> with same name/version) has a new md5sum - also slightly different size:
>>
>> chris at d6:/storage/distfiles$ ls -l 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 chris vislab 128600018 Oct  1 13:49 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>> chris at d6:/storage/distfiles$ md5sum 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>> d7578845894fb58470b54d569615d32f  26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>>
>> and new version:
>>
>> chris at d6:/tmp$ ls -l 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 chris vislab 128600081 Nov  4 20:41 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>> chris at d6:/tmp$ md5sum 26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>> 5556f1a1d668a0d1d71387a6e66b53ca  26.5.0_Release.tar.gz
>>
>> I hate it when they do that.
>>
>> chris
>
> me too: it decreases the level of trust that I put on those particular
> developers.
>
That's important for a project that I thought was supposed to be "more 
open" with fewer binary blobs (unknown code in your system) i.e. more 
trustworthy.

Anyway, I raised an issue about it at their website:
     https://github.com/MoonchildProductions/Pale-Moon/issues/651

chris



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