Re: Sig mismatch - something up?

[Matthew Watchinski <mwatchinski () sourcefire com>]

With the release of the RPMS and binaries for 2.4.4 and 2.6.0 RC we 
re-rolled the .tar.gz file.  That's why the md5sums are different.

Cheers,
-matt

Paul Schmehl wrote:
> A poster just reported, on the FreeBSD ports list, that the distinfo 
> file for snort has checksums that don't match what's on snort.org right 
> now.
>
> Here's the distinfo file information:
>
> MD5 (snort-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 9dc9060d1f2e248663eceffadfc45e7e
> SHA256 (snort-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 
> b9f3e21467a5f6dd827ddb80dc9ac29ea272e4a5633a6a8a583f523a219e00e9
> SIZE (snort-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 2825187
>
> This is an md5 checksum of a download that I just did.  As you can see, 
> they don't match:
>
> root@utd59514# md5 /home/pauls/Downloads/snort-2.4.4.tar.gz
> MD5 (/home/pauls/Downloads/snort-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 
> 37415bc9db02063ce421e3cd3f59c6c8
>
> Here's the md5 checksum file from snort.  It matches the downloaded file 
> but *not* the md5 sum from the FreeBSD ports distro:
>
> root@utd59514# less /home/pauls/Downloads/snort-2.4.4.tar.gz.md5
> 37415bc9db02063ce421e3cd3f59c6c8  snort-2.4.4.tar.gz
>
> And here's a sha256 checksum of the downloaded tarball.  It also doesn't 
> match the checksum in the FreeBSD ports distro.
>
> root@utd59514# sha256 /home/pauls/Downloads/snort-2.4.4.tar.gz
> SHA256 (/home/pauls/Downloads/snort-2.4.4.tar.gz) = 
> 1f573e5a7e44c94ec509cea05c4345591a4ba76d0d1b25dcfcb0cdc4d3239c6c
>
> The checksums in the distinfo file are created by downloading the 
> tarball and running "make makesum".  Then the port maintainer *should* 
> check those checksums against the checksum file on snort.org.
>
> So why do we have a mismatch?  Has the snort 2.4.4 tarball been changed 
> recently?



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