Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
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 re

Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread John O'Sullivan
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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
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 xpilot-client-nosound_4.5

Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
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 t

Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread John O'Sullivan
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 p

Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread Ben Armstrong
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 ftp.ie.

Re: md5 checksum errors in several packages

2005-02-21 Thread John O'Sullivan
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 - 3cfe83e6a25995d17d568737c3c