Previously Decklin Foster wrote: > md5sums are also useful if you want to check whether or not you have a > corrupted download, right? I would imagine libc is also on that list, > and it's pretty big to fetch over a dial-up connection just to check. No, useless, If the download is corrupted you'll extract corrupted md5sums as well, if you can extract them at all. apt will already check the m5dsum of the downloaded package for you using the md5sum listed in the Packages file. Wichert. -- _________________________________________________________________ / Generally uninteresting signature - ignore at your convenience \ | wichert@liacs.nl http://www.liacs.nl/~wichert/ | | 1024D/2FA3BC2D 576E 100B 518D 2F16 36B0 2805 3CB8 9250 2FA3 BC2D |
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