MD5 support

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Wed May 1 09:04:00 GMT 2002


On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 11:47:59AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, May 02, 2002 at 01:33:52AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>>> Hmm.  Dueling "you do the work" scenarios.
>>> 
>>> Why not just release an interim version of setup that 
>>> silently ignores the third field?  That's what we've done in the past.
>>
>>I planned to, but then, without realising it, I'd done the code :}. It
>>seemed like to much effort to strip it out, just to ensure more
>>testing...
>
>> Hmm.  Dueling "you do the work" scenarios.

Ok.  There is a setup-md5.ini in /sourceware/ftp/anonftp/pub/cygwin
(home of setup.exe and setup.ini).  I generated it against my local
release directory so there may be some irregularities in things like
sdesc/ldesc and some versions may be off.

However, it is usuable as a proof of concept.

cgf



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