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.

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