On Saturday 31 May 2003 06:16 pm, KVPSTAFF wrote: > geez...it looks to me,,,if I'm using md5sum.exe correctly.. > that the number in the file called: md5sums.91.asc > is not the same as the file downloaded... > this is ridiculous...that mandrake would allow mirrors > that would mess up there files...like this... > geez, doesn't mandrake check these mirrors at all? > to make sure things like this doesn't happen? > boy you mean I have to keep downloading the same file off numerous > mirrors till one checks out...finally... > that's stupid.
It might not be the mirror, but the download. And Mandrake does not check the mirrors (except it's primary) because they are public mirrors and anyone can mirror it because it is GPL software. They have absolutely no control over any of those machines. -- Greg
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