Re: are md5sums mandatory for all packages?
On Sat, Dec 20, 1997 at 07:02:45PM +0100, David Frey wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 20 1997 16:17 +1100 Hamish Moffatt writes:
> > On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 01:31:38PM -0500, Scott Ellis wrote:
> > > And the instant someone provides us with free software equivilant to ssh
> > > or pgp, we'll move to use it. We need the functionality, unfortunatly
> > > sometimes you have to use what you can get.
> >
> > Hmmm. Perhaps this is a flaw in the non-US section,
> > or at least the perception of it (or mine at very least). I had
> > assumed that non-US meant otherwise free, which having just
> > read the copyrights for ssh and pgp, I see is not the case ..
> Isn't the hamm non-us section split into non-free and hamm ?
> I thought, this was the consensus, since non-us only means
> `not to be (re-)exported from the US'.
No, it is just non-us/hamm. All the packages are lumped together;
> cd hamm/binary
> ls
Packages.gz pgp-i_2.6.3a-2.deb
apache-ssl_1.2.4+1.11-2.deb pgp-us_2.6.3a-2.deb
bzip_0.21-3.1.deb rsaref_19930105-2.deb
cfs_1.3.3-1.deb speak-freely_6.1c-3.deb
crypt++el_2.82-1.deb ssh_1.2.21-3.deb
des-solnet_1.03-5.deb ssleay_0.8.1-4.deb
libssl-dev_0.8.1-2.deb ssltelnet_0.11.1-2.deb
libssl08-dev_0.8.1-4.deb unzip-crypt_5.32-1.deb
libssl08_0.8.1-4.deb zip-crypt_2.20-1.deb
libssl_0.8.1-2.deb
There are both free & non-free packages there.
Hamish
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