[Slackbuilds-users] md5sums

Mario Preksavec mario at slackware.hr
Mon Aug 24 10:27:39 UTC 2015


On 08/24/2015 12:02 PM, Panagiotis Nikolaou wrote:
> I use slackrepo <http://idlemoor.github.io/slackrepo/> for building 
> packages and the wrong md5sum in .info breaks the automation of slackrepo

That's the whole point behind md5sum logic, to let you know a file might 
be tampered with, esp. files with version numbers. Blindly updating 
md5sums will probably lead to a security breach somewhere down the road, 
I hope we are not doing just that and hoping for the best... :-)

-- 
Mario

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