On 2009-04-12 20:56Z, David Christensen wrote: > > md5sum computes the same checksum as what is contained in MD5SUMS, but > prepends an asterisk to the filename on output. So, the *.iso file is > okay, but "md5sum -c MD5SUMS" is somehow broken (?).
The asterisk is okay; it should be ignored with '--check'. > Nope. Perhaps there is something wrong with my Cygwin (?) and/or md5sum > (?). Updating and trying again: > > 2009-04-12 13:44:25 dpchr...@p43400e /cygdrive/h/data/iso/debian > $ md5sum debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso > b02c3606a3f35f160a591fe1154aa362 *debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso > > 2009-04-12 13:45:09 dpchr...@p43400e /cygdrive/h/data/iso/debian > $ grep 'rescue.iso$' MD5SUMS > b02c3606a3f35f160a591fe1154aa362 debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso > > 2009-04-12 13:45:41 dpchr...@p43400e /cygdrive/h/data/iso/debian > $ md5sum -c MD5SUMS 2>&1 | grep 'rescue\.iso' > debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso: FAILED > debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso.list: OK > debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso.log: OK > debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso.packages: OK Try testing that file directly: echo "b02c3606a3f35f160a591fe1154aa362 debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso" \ | md5sum --check --warn And this (with an asterisk) should give the same result: echo "b02c3606a3f35f160a591fe1154aa362 *debian-live-500-i386-rescue.iso" \ | md5sum --check --warn If those succeed, try adding '--warn' to the original command: md5sum -cw MD5SUMS 2>&1 | grep 'rescue.iso' just in case there's something strange in that file. It would be interesting if this native 'md5sum' works as expected where Cygwin's doesn't: http://downloads.activestate.com/contrib/md5sum/Windows/md5sum.exe#!md5!eb574b236133e60c989c6f472f07827b And I suppose it's worth showing the result of `which md5sum`, just in case you've got a rogue copy on $PATH, even though you seem not to. A wild idea based on this report: http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=2961 would be to run the test repeatedly and see if the result changes. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
