Updating the install_with_python.sh python version

Simo idra at samba.org
Sun May 26 06:30:09 MDT 2013


On 05/26/2013 06:13 AM, Michael Wood wrote:
> On 24 May 2013 16:04, Ricky Nance <ricky.nance at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Andrew, it might not hurt to have a check, look in /tmp for the tarball,
>> then use rsync (if available), if not, try wget, if not try XXX (not sure
>> what solaris, freebsd, or any others have by default), if those fail, then
>> error and tell the user to download the file manually to (say /tmp?) .
> curl would be another one to try if you wanted to go in this
> direction.  On FreeBSD (and I think other BSDs too) there is "fetch".

Well, whatever you do, make sure you generate and check a sha hash of 
the tarball, to make sure the legitimate one is being downloaded.
Without a hash check this stuff should not be in samba sources.

Simo.



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