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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: HEADS UP: checksums change is not backward comp


From: James Blackwell
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: HEADS UP: checksums change is not backward compatible
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:41:59 -0500

In lists.arch.users, Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:56, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>> >>>>> "Robert" =3D=3D Robert Collins <address@hidden> writes:
>> > Well, not much we can do about this. the older tla wasn't robust in
>> > it's checksums parsing :[.

It has to be done, it has to be done.

In lists.arch.users, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:56, Samuel Tardieu wrote:
>> Which means that once Tom himself uses this patch, older versions of
>> tla won't be able to check out tla sources.
>
> Only tla 1.2pre0 will have a problem.  1.1 and any earlier version will
> work fine.  No cause for panic.

Only? ONLY? Heh. No sir.

67 out of 78 archives (as per mirrors.sourcecontrol.net) are md5
checksumed. Let me repeat that in a different way.

78.2% are about to break.
~~~~~           ~~~~~~~~

Now, the sha-1 checksum thing needs to be done. Tom knows it, Robert knows
it, Samuel knows it, you know it, and even I know it. And considering
the rapid growth we're going under right now, we need to do it much
sooner than later. But this is going to hurt 3 out of 4 of our public
users and we should be aware of it.

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