Peter Dalgaard wrote: > "Charles C. Berry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I get >> >> c1279b77fcccf40379f59a83523a440e *R-2.2.0-win32.exe >> >>but I see >> >> e8bdf765fe8013129045314c8e2605fd *rw2011.exe >> >>on several USA mirrors. >> >>I hope the latter is merely in need of a replacement and not an >>indication of a problem with the web sites. > > > Are you saying that you'd expect different versions of R to have the > same md5sum?... ;-) > > CRAN master has the old md5sum.txt as well, so I guess that the > Windows maintainer just forgot to update it.
That was part of it. However, the md5sum.txt wasn't being built properly either. > Incidentally, I don't think it's all that smart to have the md5sum > in the same location as the binary. If one is tampered with, the other > one could be too. For the main release, I always send the md5sums via > the mailing lists. Well, the bad file was online for two weeks before anyone noticed, so I'm not sure everyone is being diligent in checking it. Duncan Murdoch ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
