Re: More md5 checksums, please

[Brad <brad@comstyle.com>]

There are MD5/RMD160/SHA1 checksums for files needed by a given port in a
file by the name of distinfo in the root dir of each port.

>Date: Fri, 14 Jun 2002 12:20:51 -0600
>From: Drew Einhorn <drew.einhorn@starband.net>
>To: misc@openbsd.org
>Subject: More md5 checksums, please
>
>After some serious gnashing of teeth, and pounding my
>head against the wall, I can to the conclusion, that I'm
>unfortunate to be behind a broken, transparent, ftp proxy.
>It claims to be an ftp accelerator for a satellite link.
>
>It randomly corrupts about 1 or 2 bytes per 100MB.  I first
>became  aware of the problem downloading large iso files that
>are almost certain to be corrupted.  Smaller files are less
>likely to be corrupted, but it happens way too often.
>
>My life would be much simpler if there were md5 checksums,
>for most everything at ftp.openbsd.org, and its mirrors.
>
>Hope y'all don't consider this an unreasonable request.
>
>Thanks,