Subject: Re: Why are we waiting for the release?
From: John L. Clark (jlc6@po.cwru.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 12 2001 - 06:24:16 CDT
On Thu, Apr 12, 2001 at 11:18:10AM +0100, rms@greymalkin.yi.org wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 08:25:06PM -0400, John L. Clark wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 04:06:11PM -0400, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> > > I guess that I was just waiting for binaries. Since we haven't got any
> > > really, I'll just go ahead and release.
> >
> > My contribution:
> >
> > At ftp://john-l.cwru.edu/pub/software/abiword there is a gtk tarball and
> > a gtk slackware package. The md5sums are also there.
>
> The md5sums are more usefull if communicated on the mailing list, so we can trust the binaries more.
>
> Consider:
>
> One malefic hacker attacks your ftp site and changes the packages. What's preventing the attacker from modifying the md5sums as well?
Good point - thanks.
Here are the md5sums:
6b3f4cb31b27fd23aca392e4beec4597 abisuite-0.7.14-2-Linux_i386_dynamic.tar.gz
d172bad4e72a10a7d4d4b289b02299f6 slackware/abiword-0.7.14-2.tgz
>
> If you can, please use pgp. I have sent a mail on this mailing list (it became a small thread) on how to do it.
I hope to getting around to getting this working very soon. I saved
that thread for future reference.
John
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