Hello! In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > Avery> Could someone explain to me why it's so important to keep sources > Avery> "pristine" in this sense?
>Security. Trojan horses. To be able to compare against digital footprints (eg >md5sums) from upstream. > Avery> I can understand not wanting to > Avery> untar-retar the archive, but recompressing it? Who does that hurt? >The md5sum changes. Only if you (IMHO erroneously) take the md5 of the compressed archive. And a MD5 itself doesn't secure you from trojans, anyway. (If I can change the MD5ed file, I can often also change the MD5.) Regards, Felix. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
