Re: Differing archives on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ and ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/

[Bernhard Held]

On 17.10.2013 15:52, wrote nick clifton:
> Hi Bernhard,
>
> > the archives http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
> > and ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
> > are different.
> >
> > Is this expected?
>
> No. :-(
>
> I would consider the ftp.gnu.org version to be more correct, since it
> contains files that cannot be found or generated using the
> sourceware.org version, whereas the reverse does not apply.
>
> Fortunately 2.18 is an old release, so I doubt if this discrepancy is
> very important now.

Hi Nick,

thanks for following up.

Projects like Freetz http://freetz.org/ or OpenWrt http://openwrt.org 
build customized firmware for DSL modems or router. The build systems 
require old versions of binutils suitable for old kernel or uClibc 
versions. An update is not possible due to closed source kernel modules 
and binaries, which must be copied from the original firmware.

The build systems download binutils 2.18, check the MD5 hash and fail.
This is a today's issue.

Regards,
Bernhard