On Jun 5, 2008, at 11:13 AM, RB wrote:
> I really appreciate the effort made in recent TSK releases to
> eliminate internal baggage and depend on the host more to provide the
> necessary dependencies and facilities - good stuff, particularly for
> packagers.
>
> It seems that autopsy has been left in the cold, though - it still
> looks for the 'md5' binary, which isn't provided any more. The simple
> fix you guys have introduced in sorter would work as well, but you may
> want to be cautious about preferring 'md5' over 'md5sum' - FreeBSD
> provides 'md5', and its output is significantly different.
2.10 will look for both md5 and md5sum in the configure script when
it searches for the needed parts. The outputs are different when you
run them on a file, but autopsy uses them by piping data into them
via STDIN . In that scenario, they seem to operate the same.
> Would you like me to submit a patch? Do you have a public repository
> (other than the tarballs) I could make it against?
No, but I have been thinking about making the CVS repository public...
thanks,
brian
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