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Re: sha512.sum not on mirrors
On 2017-10-07 12:07, Achim Gratz wrote:
> Brian Inglis writes:
>> Just checking, suspect it is an error, but Cygwin setup does not care, so it
>> could be a process change.
>
> The chain of trust for setup is via the signature on the setup.ini file
> it uses and the SHA512 digests contained therein for each file that
> setup might install. I don't think setup ever looked at the sum files
> in the directories.
The sum files reappeared after the next ~hourly refresh.
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