also sprach Bernhard R. Link <blink@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> [2004.12.31.1254 +0100]: > When they are generated at install time, there could be bit-switchers > arising between unpacking them and calculating their checksums. Also > the md5sum files would no longer have a canonical look.[1] There could be a bit flip in the distributed md5sums, causing a false alarm. md5sums is not supposed to guard against broken hardware, the only cause I see for such bitflips. If the md5sum of the DEB file validates against the Packages index, the package is valid. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I read the list! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, user, and author `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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