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Re: Differing archives on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ and ftp://sou


From: Bernhard Held
Subject: Re: Differing archives on http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/ and ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 16:12:58 +0200
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On 17.10.2013 15:52, wrote nick clifton:
Hi Bernhard,

the archives http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/binutils/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
and ftp://sourceware.org/pub/binutils/releases/binutils-2.18.tar.bz2
are different.

Is this expected?

No. :-(

I would consider the ftp.gnu.org version to be more correct, since it
contains files that cannot be found or generated using the
sourceware.org version, whereas the reverse does not apply.

Fortunately 2.18 is an old release, so I doubt if this discrepancy is
very important now.

Hi Nick,

thanks for following up.

Projects like Freetz http://freetz.org/ or OpenWrt http://openwrt.org build customized firmware for DSL modems or router. The build systems require old versions of binutils suitable for old kernel or uClibc versions. An update is not possible due to closed source kernel modules and binaries, which must be copied from the original firmware.

The build systems download binutils 2.18, check the MD5 hash and fail.
This is a today's issue.

Regards,
Bernhard




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