On 22 August 2010 13:12, bendeguz <mailinglist...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed lfs and x about a week ago, so I've been > using it as my desktop since then. Of course I'm still > building it piece by piece. > > There are packages which are not in the blfs-book, > which doesn't have checksum information on the server > where the package is downloadable, or on the official website. > > Do you think it is a good practice to use the checksum > data from gentoo's portage tree? It contains sha sums > for the packages. > Do you have any other suggestion? > > Thanks in advance. > bendeguz >
Actually, the situation is worse than that! For most packages in the BLFS book, the md5sum was generated by an editor. I'm sure the gentoo sha sums are similar. ĸen -- After tragedy, and farce, "OMG poneys!" -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
