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Add admonition about using our tarballs, not the autogenerated ones

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@ -28,6 +28,22 @@ http://stats.es.net/software/
tarball was not compressed, even though its filename had a ``.tar.gz``
suffix.
**Note:** GitHub, which currently hosts the iperf3 project, supports
a "Releases" feature, which can automatically generate ``.zip`` or ``.tar.gz``
archives, on demand, from tags in the iperf3 source tree. These tags are
created during the release engineering process to mark the exact
version of files making up a release.
In theory, the ``.tar.gz`` files produced by GitHub contain the same
contents as what are in the official tarballs, note that the tarballs
themselves will be different due to internal timestamps or other
metadata. Therefore these files will *not* match the published SHA256
checksums and no guarantees can be made about the integrity of the
files. The authors of iperf3 always recommend downloading source
distributions from the the directory above (or a mirror site), and
verifying the SHA256 checksums before using them for any purpose, to
ensure the files have not been tampered with.
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