Steve in the package-get-base you posted all the 'md5sums' seem to be
off.
Ediff-1.09 is also listed as a .tgz file but is a .tar.gz file
Jan
(with-temp-buffer
(let (file-name-handler-alist)
(insert-file-contents-internal "~/scratch/md5/irchat-1.00-pkg.tar.gz"))
(md5 (current-buffer)))
"741b2b044cc5b4e169c05699c9c540ea"
bolzano:~/scratch/md5> ./md5 irchat-1.00-pkg.tar.gz
MD5 (irchat-1.00-pkg.tar.gz) = 741b2b044cc5b4e169c05699c9c540ea
(irchat
(standards-version 1.0
version "1.00"
author-version "980625-2"
date "oc
key "
build-date "1998-09-08"
maintainer "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta(a)xemacs.org>"
distribution stable
priority medium
category "comm"
dump nil
description "ZENIRC IRC Client."
filename "irchat-1.00-pkg.tar.gz"
md5sum "331ca1a047ab8bba3744fcfc8d0d7359"
size 151966
provides (irchat)
requires ()
type regular
))