Re: MD5 hash

From: Frederick Bruckman (fredb_at_immanent.net)
Date: 07/21/04

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    Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 00:08:10 -0500

    In article <cdjmn8$76t$1@localhost.localdomain>,
            Igor Sobrado <sobrado@string1.ciencias.uniovi.es> writes:
    > Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net> wrote:
    >> NetBSD 2.0 will do that:
    >
    >> # uname -s -r
    >> NetBSD 2.0_BETA
    >> # grep /usr/bin/md5 /etc/mtree/set.base
    >> ./usr/bin/md5 type=file mode=0555 sha1=efd5da876f3137f9efd2d649ebd313927ce3c677
    >
    > Great! Is this feature related with the execution of signed binaries?

    Yes, I believe that's why it was added.

    > Will this DB be automatically updated when a binary is added/rebuild
    > or is it provided as a reference for binaries provided in the default
    > installation only?

    It seems you have to build the sets to update the checksums, while an
    ordinary build wipes them out. 

    -- 
Frederick
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