On 30 Apr 2009, at 20:40, mabshoff wrote: > On Apr 30, 5:27 pm, Kevin Horton <khorto...@rogers.com> wrote: >> Where does one find the MD5 of the tarball, so one can confirm the >> tarball is good before starting to compile sage? > > They are not automatically generated, so I tend to post them only > rarely in the release notes. > > Tar has a verify option, so you might want to use that when > compilation attempts fail.
man tar seems to say that the verify option is only available when creating tarballs. It looks like it compares the tarball to the original files. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-devel-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URLs: http://www.sagemath.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
