Differing archives on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ and ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/

[nick clifton]

Hi Bernhard,

> the archives http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
> and ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
> are different.
>
> Is this expected?

No. :-(

I would consider the ftp.gnu.org version to be more correct, since it 
contains files that cannot be found or generated using the 
sourceware.org version, whereas the reverse does not apply.

Fortunately 2.18 is an old release, so I doubt if this discrepancy is 
very important now.

Cheers
   Nick