On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:19:13PM -0400, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Sunday 07 October 2007, Giovanni Scafora wrote: > > No, that one isn't corrupted. > > I download it manually then: > > > > # pacman -U /home/gianni/Desktop/ntop-3.3-3-i686.pkg.tar.gz > > loading package data... done. > > checking dependencies... done. > > cleaning up... done. > > (1/1) checking for file conflicts [#####################] > > 100% (1/1) upgrading ntop > > [#####################] 100% [EMAIL PROTECTED] gianni]# > > Does using -U do the same hash/MD5 check that -Syu does? I cleaned the > cache, > downloaded it manually, saved it into the cache, and tried -Syu and got the > same error. If using -U gives no error, I suspect the same hash check is not > done with -U, which means it is dangerous to use it if you are not sure about > the source. >
It doesn't do it indeed. The md5 are contained in the repositories, and only -S deals with repositories, not -U. -U is generally used for packages not in the repo anyway, built locally with makepkg. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
