On Jan 25 at 16:58, Chuck Swiger spoke: > Hanspeter Roth wrote: > > On Jan 25 at 14:48, Chuck Swiger spoke: > >>You need to have an external source of information which specifies a > >>checksum or MD5 hash to confirm that the file has not been tampered with. > > > >That to say I should download CHECKSUM.MD5 from one of the public > >FTP-servers by hand and do the MD5 checks myself, right? > > Yes indeed, or use the files in a context like the ports tree, which does > this sort of checking for you.
Ok, I forgot to mention that I thought of the ISO images of 4.11-RELEASE (or ISO images of future releases). This has probably noting to do with the ports tree. So the CHECKSUM.MD5 file from an FTP-server is still required. -Hanspeter _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
