Scott James Remnant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Moved to debian-devel, I don't think this is relevant to private as > the GNU crack is well publicised ]
> On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 14:58, Matt Zimmerman wrote: [...] >> If we're going to make a statement about it, we should have some facts to >> release. For example, if someone would like to verify the validity of the >> GNU source tarballs that we ship against the checksums published by GNU, >> that would be great. > No problem, this is only a quick run -- others may find ways to improve > this script somewhat. [...] > The script I used is attached, it takes the before-2003-08-01.md5sums > file from the GNU ftp site (run through gpg to remove signature) as > either stdin or a command-line argument. [...] The corresponding output for files from alpha.gnu.org is much shorter: autoconf: autoconf_2.57.orig.tar.gz OK. !! coreutils: coreutils_4.5.3.orig.tar.gz NOT OK (bc59cb94381dcda083e1cdf2f054bf24 != 2d520532c40d5965024f7cc31a7c0ab7) !! coreutils: coreutils_4.5.6.orig.tar.gz NOT OK (2bb41d18c38ab909d02875866e7f2b08 != a22e7e148cc76995dac17ac302b5602f) !! coreutils: coreutils_5.0.90.orig.tar.gz NOT OK (dbf2126651fe7f09aef0758d3c49a245 != e35fa79775ba0e1b973f13d06336287c) textutils: textutils_2.0.orig.tar.gz OK. findutils: findutils_4.1.20.orig.tar.gz OK. gpaint: gpaint_0.2.2.orig.tar.gz OK. gzip: gzip_1.3.5.orig.tar.gz OK. libidn: libidn_0.1.14.orig.tar.gz OK. tar: tar_1.13.25.orig.tar.gz OK. vcdimager: vcdimager_0.7.14.orig.tar.gz OK. cu andreas