From murdoch at stats.uwo.ca  Fri Oct 21 03:59:32 2005
From: murdoch at stats.uwo.ca (Duncan Murdoch)
Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2005 21:59:32 -0400
Subject: [Rd] md5sum for R-2.2.0-win32.exe ??
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Peter Dalgaard wrote:
> "Charles C. Berry" <cberry at tajo.ucsd.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>I get
>>
>> 	c1279b77fcccf40379f59a83523a440e *R-2.2.0-win32.exe
>>
>>but I see
>>
>> 	e8bdf765fe8013129045314c8e2605fd *rw2011.exe
>>
>>on several USA  mirrors.
>>
>>I hope the latter is merely in need of a replacement and not an 
>>indication of a problem with the web sites.
> 
> 
> Are you saying that you'd expect different versions of R to have the
> same md5sum?... ;-)
> 
> CRAN master has the old md5sum.txt as well, so I guess that the
> Windows maintainer just forgot to update it.

That was part of it.  However, the md5sum.txt wasn't being built 
properly either.

> Incidentally, I don't think it's all that smart to have the md5sum
> in the same location as the binary. If one is tampered with, the other
> one could be too. For the main release, I always send the md5sums via
> the mailing lists.

Well, the bad file was online for two weeks before anyone noticed, so 
I'm not sure everyone is being diligent in checking it.

Duncan Murdoch



[Rd] md5sum for R-2.2.0-win32.exe ??
Duncan Murdoch