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Re: tarball checksum/signature targets?
- From: Akim Demaille <akim at epita dot fr>
- To: Harlan Stenn <Harlan dot Stenn at pfcs dot com>
- Cc: automake at gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:45:50 +0200
- Subject: Re: tarball checksum/signature targets?
- References: <66992.1051236695@dog.pfcs.com>
Harlan> Thanks - my goal is to produce some number of checksum files
Harlan> (md5, "sum", pgp, gpg, whatever) at the time I produce the
Harlan> distribution *balls.
Harlan> I'd then "publish" the *balls and checksum files.
Harlan> I'm not sure I care about validating this on the user's side
Harlan> yet, but I can see that it would be Useful to have utility
Harlan> that would compare a *ball with the distributed checksum
Harlan> files as well.
Have a look at the Coreutils Makefile.maint/GNUMakefile's "alpha"
target.