missing tsort in textutils.tar.gz

Fri Jul 7 19:14:00 GMT 2000

Thanks for claryfing this. Is there a simple utility in cygwin to confirm
the validity using the md5? what unix command can I use?
/dave
-----Original Message-----
From: DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com>
To: avr_fan@mailandnews.com <avr_fan@mailandnews.com>
Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>
Date: Friday, July 07, 2000 7:06 PM
Subject: Re: missing tsort in textutils.tar.gz
>>> What about the mirror sites are they also trusted and certified to
>> be virus scanned etc?
>>First off, sourceware includes MD5 files that you can use to verify
>that packages have been transferred from sourceware to the mirror to
>you.
>>Second, most mirror sites are running Unix, not Windows, and are much
>less likely to be infected anyway.
>>Third, virii that *can* infect those Unix sites would not be the types
>of viruses that could infect Cygwin executables inside .tar.gz files.
>>Fourth, mirror site maintainers are much more likely to be actively
>securing their machines against attacks.
>>> What about some of the sites like http://cygutils.netpedia.net/ etc?
>> are they trusted/certified too?
>>Sites, like people, *earn* trust. We can't just give it to them, nor
>can we certify them. We only administer the cygwin archives on
>sourceware; that's all we can attest to. If you want to know what
>other sites use for procedures, you must ask them directly.

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