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Message-ID: <20150112002356.GA4821@openwall.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 03:23:56 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: db-5.3.28 (in rpm package)

Galaxy,

Trying to verify db-5.3.28.tar.xz, I compare it against the upstream
file mentioned in the comment in rpm.spec (thanks!) and I see these
additions and changes:

 db-5.3.28/dist/Makefile.in                       |    3 
 db-5.3.28/dist/aclocal.m4                        |only
 db-5.3.28/dist/aclocal/libtool.m4                |10503 +++++++++--------------
 db-5.3.28/dist/aclocal/noop.m4                   |only
 db-5.3.28/dist/autom4te.cache                    |only
 db-5.3.28/dist/config.hin                        |   21 
 db-5.3.28/dist/config.hin~                       |only
 db-5.3.28/dist/configure                         | 1484 +--
 db-5.3.28/test/tcl/include.tcl                   |   30 

This makes verification tricky/unreliable.  Would it be reasonable to
avoid such changes (merely remove some files, not add/change anything)?
I suppose you could be making the minor changes and running autotools
from our spec file, so those changes would be subject to our revision
control.  Also, note how in nmap.spec I describe exactly which files are
removed - you could do the same in rpm.spec to make it easier and more
reliable to reproduce the same changes for future upstream versions.

Alexander

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