Hi all,
I have a local mirror of sarge here at work for making custom install
cds. My mirror is a copy of the mirror at heanet (ftp.ie.debian.org). I
have noticed incorrect checksums on 8 packages and I am posting the
details here in case this is a serious problem. Hopefully someone more
Ben Armstrong wrote:
I question, then, the integrity of ftp.ie.debian.org or your own mirror.
Just checking one of my own packages, I obtained a copy from my local
mirror, and this is the result:
$ extract -H md5 xpilot-client-nosound_4.5.5beta.20031222-1_i386.deb
MD5 -
John,
On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 15:24 +, John O'Sullivan wrote:
My mirror is a copy of the mirror at heanet (ftp.ie.debian.org). I
have noticed incorrect checksums on 8 packages and I am posting the
details here in case this is a serious problem.
I question, then, the integrity of
Thats pretty much what the guy in HEAnet just said to me but the length
of the files is the same. He says that the tcp checksums aren't accurate
enough for 100% correctness.
I'm emailing him some details now.
cheers,
johno
Ben Armstrong wrote:
John,
Have you considered the possibility that the
John,
Have you considered the possibility that the packages are corrupt due to
truncation which may have happened because you (or your mirror) ran out
of space at some point in the past while downloading these packages?
The package names are late in the alphabet, which might account for why
only
John O'Sullivan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ben Armstrong wrote:
I question, then, the integrity of ftp.ie.debian.org or your own mirror.
Just checking one of my own packages, I obtained a copy from my local
mirror, and this is the result:
$ extract -H md5
Sorry for the false alarm. Those files were only corrupted. HEAnet have
resynced them now and all is good. Sorry for wasting ppls time.
johno
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On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 17:31 +, John O'Sullivan wrote:
Sorry for the false alarm. Those files were only corrupted. HEAnet have
resynced them now and all is good. Sorry for wasting ppls time.
I'm just happy that people are looking for this sort of thing. It is
encouraging that if were a
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