Subject: Re: why doesn't NetBSD ship with md5sum or sha1sum?
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.org>
From: Jukka Salmi <j+nbsd@2006.salmi.ch>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 04/20/2006 15:33:21
Jeremy C. Reed --> netbsd-help (2006-04-19 15:04:08 -0700):
> On Thu, 20 Apr 2006, Henry Nelson wrote:
> 
> > I just installed 3.0.0_STABLE.  Did I miss some set that contains
> > the binary verification tools md5sum or sha1sum?  Without these you
> > have to go back to an older machine with trusted tools just to get
> > started.  One or the other of these tools, preferably both, ought
> > to be in base, IMHO.
> 
> Those are the coreutils names.
> 
> In the BSD world use:
> 
> md5
> or
> sha1

I wonder why the BSD checksum tools don't offer an option similar
to the `-c <file>' option the coreutils tools have to check files
against a list of filename-checksum tuples. I think this is quite
useful...


Cheers, Jukka

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