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Re: question on the quarterly releases



Thanks for confirming

On Mar 19, 2014 4:42 AM, "Jonathan Perkin" <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
* On 2014-03-19 at 04:17 GMT, Matthew Raspberry wrote:

> Forgive me if I'm asking a dumb question but I want to confirm this before
> going any further. Why are the checksums for
> pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2013Q4/pkgsrc.tar.xz and
> pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2013Q4/pkgsrc-2013Q4.tar.xz different? I've done some
> comparisons of the files in each archive and I'm guessing the reason is
> that the pkgsrc-2013Q4.tar.xz contains the snapshot as it was at the time
> of release and pkgsrc.tar.xz is the snapshot at the time of release with
> security and/or stability patches. Is that correct?

Yes.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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