Control: tag -1 +confirmed , severity -1 minor , reassign -1 cdimage.debian.org
Hi, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 07:28:54PM +0100, Benjamin Cama wrote: > I don't really know where to file that; please reassign if I'm wrong. If this is specific to one mirror, it's a mirroring bug, else it's a bug against cdimage.debian.org http://www.debian.org/Bugs/pseudo-packages > I recently downloaded the debian-installer netboot archive at > http://debian.univ-nantes.fr/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/gtk/netboot.tar.gz > which is the GTK version of the netboot installer (this bug doesn't > affect the text version). > > I noticed, after unpacking it and checking for the sums, hoping that > they will be the same as if I downloaded all the files individually, > that they all validate except one: the initrd.gz for this installer. (I > checked the sum of the .tar.gz itself, and it's OK). > > The sums are, e.g., here: > http://debian.univ-nantes.fr/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/SHA256SUMS > > When getting directly the initrd.gz from > http://debian.univ-nantes.fr/debian/dists/wheezy/main/installer-amd64/current/images/netboot/gtk/debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz > I correctly get > f8971317915ed2ce8358b24ca88ea95c75ebe97a1e0a95f60c7977da368b3352 > But when extracting it from the archive, I get > c2103b9533baa88814e770b493e5ba93f3043f3d73ce6e018addcd7c84b22cd4 > > By looking closer, the uncompressed initrd from both files is the same. > Only the date (from the gzip header) differs by a couple of seconds. And > this only happens for the GTK installer, not the text one, once again… > > Furthermore, I also realized that Ubuntu is affected, too (!); the sum > for the GTK installer of Precise Pangolin has the same problem. > > There must be a small packaging bug somewhere… In order to reproduce this: cp -a gtk gtk.check cd gtk.check; rm -r debian-installer pxelinux* tar xf netboot.tar.gz vimdiff <(cd gtk/ && find -type f -exec sha256sum '{}' \;) <(cd gtk.check && find -type f -exec sha256sum '{}' \;) --> we can confirm ./debian-installer/amd64/initrd.gz has a different sum once extracted. -- Simon Paillard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org