On 16 March 2011 09:40, Troy Howard <thowar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Regarding: >> I cannot read the tar.gz files with my normal tools (hexdump shows >> that they are in RAR format), and the hashes have got spurious lines >> in them which break automated checkers. > > Looks like you guys are a) building the release packages on Windows, > and b) using Microsoft's FCIV tool to generate MD5 and SHA1 hashes. > This is something I tried to do at first as well. > > To get a standard output for that, you should use the standard Unix > tools... You can download gnu coreutils binaries compiled for Windows > from here: > > http://s.apache.org/rV > > Install that package, and use the included md5.exe/sha1.exe programs > to generate your checksums, and it will be exactly Apache's standard > for that (instead of messing around with munging the output from > FCIV).. Plus you get a bunch of other handy standard unix commandline > apps without needingt to install cygwin...
Given that the project currently uses Maven, would in not make more sense to use Maven to create the archives and hashes (and sigs)? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
