Md5sum mis-match on hplip-3.11.5
 

This is the source file for the hpijs Hewlett-Packard printer driver. There was a Md5sum mis-match last week when this new version appeared, so I decided to delete the downloaded tarball and wait for a week to see if the problem cleared up.

This week it is still mismatched. Is it safe for me to build the package with the -um option set? I don't wish to do this without asking first because I know that Md5sums are there for everyone's protection and that a mis-match may indicate corruption in the file.
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Md5sum mis-match on hplip-3.11.5
 

On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 2:56 AM, Hazel Russman <hazel_russman@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> This is the source file for the hpijs Hewlett-Packard printer driver. There was a Md5sum mis-match last week when this new version appeared, so I decided to delete the downloaded tarball and wait for a week to see if the problem cleared up.
>
> This week it is still mismatched. Is it safe for me to build the package with the -um option set? I don't wish to do this without asking first because I know that Md5sums are there for everyone's protection and that a mis-match may indicate corruption in the file.

You could download the source yourself and verify it's contents.
They may have made some changes without releasing a new version ?

md5sum mismatches aren't that bad really.

cheers
James

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Md5sum mis-match on hplip-3.11.5
 

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 05:56:29PM +0100, Hazel Russman wrote:
> This is the source file for the hpijs Hewlett-Packard printer driver.
> There was a Md5sum mis-match last week when this new version appeared,
> so I decided to delete the downloaded tarball and wait for a week to
> see if the problem cleared up.
>
> This week it is still mismatched. Is it safe for me to build the package
> with the -um option set? I don't wish to do this without asking first
> because I know that Md5sums are there for everyone's protection and that
> a mis-match may indicate corruption in the file.

Thanks for the report, I've fixed the hpijs-port today.

A md5sum miss-match should never happen, but in most cases it's because
upstream decided to change the tarball without raising the version number,
which is a bad strategy IMO. At sourceforge you can always see the md5sum
of the tarballs by clicking on the 'i' or 'info' rightmost besides the
filename.


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Juergen

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