On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 10:46:57AM +0200, Eddy Petri??or wrote:
>
> I went through few of apt-zip's bug reports during the weekend and
> found this one. What trobled me was that the initial reporter said "If
> packages don't have any MD5 sums at all", but I find that striking as
> apt-get -qq --print-uris (the command which is ran in the background
> of apt-zip-list script) always prints the md5sum (at least in my
> case).
>
> Could you please give an example of such a package that does not have
> an md5 sum? i find that the removalk of the md5 sum checking is a
> means to introduce problems, as one can't identify a download that
> went wrong until he/she reaches the low-band connection computer. I
> would like to revert thsi change and close other bugs, too (I did
> already - changes pending in my svn repo - will send a patch).
I use many apt sources and in some cases MD5 is absent. Of course these
sources aren't 'official' and may be 'incorrect', but works perfectly with
apt.
OTOH, "empty MD5 sum" may be result of some errors. Because that I ask
you config option for this.
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