[R] md5 hash is wrong for 2.6.2 (Windows)

[Duncan Murdoch]

On 09/02/2008 4:41 PM, Paul Lynch wrote:
> Hi,
>    I've downloaded R-2.6.2-win32.exe (base) from two CRAN sites
> (http://mirrors.ibiblio.org/pub/mirrors/CRAN/ and
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/) and for both of those sites the
> expected MD5 hash is reported to be:
>      ed512872818707f27ca05f08be7363c2 *R-2.6.2-win32.exe
> (See, for example, http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/R/CRAN/bin/windows/base/md5sum.txt).
> 
>    However, when I compute the MD5 hash (using two different MD5 hash
> generators) I get
>       4acf8298a829c2787b8fe848f866999a *R-2.6.2-win32.exe
> 
> Could someone check and confirm that the MD5 sums on the CRAN server
> are incorrect?  (And fix it?)  Thanks,
>       --Paul
> 
> p.s.  Given that two CRAN servers have the bad value, I'm guessing
> it's safe to install.  It installed okay is seems to be running fine.

I've worked out what happened:  there was a build of R-patched which 
overwrote the release, because it happened before the VERSION file had 
been updated to include "Patched".  I don't upload md5sum.txt in the 
R-patched or R-devel scripts, so that's why you detected the difference.

To confirm this, you could check the NEWS file:  it contained entries 
for 2.6.2 Patched, as well as the 2.6.2 entries.  As far as I know it's 
perfectly safe to use.

Duncan Murdoch