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Re: [UPDATE] base-files (3.1-4)


On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:26PM -0000, John Morrison wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:58:54PM -0000, John Morrison wrote:
>>>Changes:
>>>   Wish I knew.  For some reason editing it with CodeWright appears to
>>>corrupt things.  Sorry.  Anyway, a textually identical(?!) set of files
>>>*not* edited with CodeWright :(
>>>
>>><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/base-files-3.1-4.tar.bz2>
>>><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/md5sum>
>>><http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/base-files/setup.hint>
>>>
>>>Please upload at your earliest convenience.
>>
>> Uploaded.
>>
>> Btw, it would be helpful if you only provided the links of things that
>> had been changed.  I've inspected your setup.hint file twice now but
>> AFAICT it is no different than the one currently in the distribution so
>> there's no need to include it in your upload request.
>
>OK.  I just thought it was wanted each time :)
>
>Do you want the link to the md5sums each time still?

Actually, I'd prefer just having the md5s in the email itself on the
theory that if someone was able to change the files on your site, they
could also change the md5s.

Of course, someone could even more easily spoof email, but I, ah, er,
rigorously inspect the headers of every one of these upload requests.
Yep.  I do.

cgf


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