43814 – md5sum duplicity

Bug 43814 - md5sum duplicity

Summary: md5sum duplicity

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	Lowest minor (vote)
Assignee:	Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2004-03-05 09:54 UTC by J.Taimr
Modified:	2004-03-05 15:19 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description J.Taimr 2004-03-05 09:54:46 UTC

app-arch/dpkg and sys-apps/coreutils both contain md5sum binary, in both cases installed into /usr/bin. But these md5sums are not the same, md5sum from coreutils accepts long options, md5sum from dpkg not. md5sum --check is correct for coreutils/md5sum, but illegal for dpkg/md5sum. This uncertainty can break certain scripts, dpkg/md5sum should not be installed, if second one is present.

Comment 1 Heinrich Wendel (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-03-05 15:19:09 UTC

thanks for pointing that out, i removed md5sum from dpkg-1.10.18.1 since it will always be provided by coreutils