-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 Robert Connolly wrote: > On Saturday October 18 2008 10:10:57 pm Bryan Kadzban wrote: >>>> 2247 Texinfo 4.13a ( repackage due to maintainer error ) >> I just pulled down texinfo-4.13a.tar.gz and texinfo-4.13.tar.gz -- >> and their md5sums are *identical*. Extracting each into its own >> directory also shows no differences (via diff -ur). >> >> I don't think there's any reason to change the version in the book. >> Either the 4.13a tarball got released with the same bug, or the >> 4.13 tarball got updated as well as pushing out a 4.13a. *shrug* > > This is not the first time Texinfo has releases a new version and > changed the checksum on the previous version. Last time it was > because of updated license files. Check the diffs if you like.
Well, when I wrote the above I wasn't sure how to tell which of those two alternatives happened (whether the .13a release has the same issue as .13, or whether .13 got updated). But then I looked at the book SVN rev where it got updated (on Oct. 7) -- and the texinfo entities in the book got modified to these: <!ENTITY texinfo-version "4.13"> <!ENTITY texinfo-md5 "71ba711519209b5fb583fed2b3d86fcb"> And, interestingly enough: $ md5sum texinfo-4.13.tar.gz texinfo-4.13a.tar.gz 71ba711519209b5fb583fed2b3d86fcb texinfo-4.13.tar.gz 71ba711519209b5fb583fed2b3d86fcb texinfo-4.13a.tar.gz Looks like either the .13a tarball has the same bug (if it is a bug), or the .13a release had already updated .13 by the time we pulled it down. Since the date on the GNU site is 22-Sep., and the rev was committed on 7-Oct., I'm guessing the latter is what happened. I.e., we already have the newer version (and so will users), and its checksum is fine. > I suggest bumping to the new checksum and file, The checksum is the same; bumping the version would change only the &texinfo-version; entity. > or else there will be bug reports and bad checksums. Yeah, it might be confusing to some people if the version # is different. Fine by me either way. (Though the checksums will be fine; see above.) > I haven't checked the differences, I wish I *could* check the differences; I'm curious what they changed. I can't seem to find the original texinfo-4.13 package anywhere... :-( Oh well. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFI+rIDS5vET1Wea5wRA4JDAJ9Ig5o/AEZbpsWIHDnuQNzKoEQ9iQCg3mCl C9MfTwgEMWsM6lthFJ/wKVw= =woEG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
