From: Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: sha512.sum not on mirrors
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 18:58:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91dba9f6-3678-69f7-c570-f76854cfad53@SystematicSw.ab.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8va25nz.fsf@Rainer.invalid>
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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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-07 17:02 Brian Inglis
2017-10-07 17:28 ` Steven Penny
2017-10-07 17:57 ` Brian Inglis
2017-10-07 18:07 ` Achim Gratz
2017-10-07 18:58 ` Brian Inglis [this message]
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