New setup.exe beta and the elusive MD5 sum (Re: New setup.exe beta)

[Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>]

This question has come up more than once already, so I'll take a stab at
the answer:
The explicit MD5 sum check, IIUC, is performed only when doing Install
from Local Directory to make sure the external tools did not corrupt the
downloads.  If Install from the Internet is performed, the MD5 sum check
happens while the package is downloaded, and is not considered a separate
step.
	Igor

On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Vince Hoffman wrote:

> Tried it on three machines, one to upgrade packages (cygwin, tcsh) one to
> just add a few things and one for a new install all as install from
> internet.
> upgrade went fine on windows 2k pro (well it still works :)
> adding went fine (win 2k pro) (well from a quick test of added apps)
> clean install on win 2k server went fine, added my domains users to
> /etc/passwd, created the symlinks in /etc fine. Perl seems happy as does
> sshd. the only odd thing being that i have a directory named default in my
> home directory for some reason.
> I didnt notice the md5 check though and none of the machines i tested it on
> are blisteringly fast machines (fastest was a pIII 600) so i doubt it went
> too fast for me to notice. When should i have seen the md5 test ?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Robert Collins" <rbcollins@cygwin.com>
> To: <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 11:33 AM
> Subject: New setup.exe beta.
>
> > We're at that time again, where your testing directly influences the
> > quality of setup.exe that you get to run.
> >
> > So,
> > at http://www.cygwin.com/setup-snapshots/ there is a new setup.exe
> > snapshot, that is (as far as we know) devoid of major bugs.
> >
> > It has many many new features. They include:
> >
> > * More command line options.
> > * Can disable McAfee temporarily (for users who get blue screens when
> > installing cygwin).
> > * Better FTP server support.
> > * Faster setup.ini parser (usable on > 1Mb ini files), and
> > * Support for dpkg style syntax in setup.ini - that is the 'Sources' and
> > 'Releases' syntax. This allows versioned file dependencies amongst other
> > things.
> > * Builds with g++-3, so will build OOTB on a current cygwin install.
> > * GUI feedback during MD5 verification, so you can tell your machine has
> > not crashed!
> > * And many more quality tweaks.
> >
> > A BIG thanks to the net contributors who have helped make this beta what
> > it is. I'll dig up a full list of names from the ChangeLog when we
> > actually release setup.exe :}.
> >
> > Please, please, try this setup.exe out and tell us what you think.
> >
> > Rob

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