[WBEL-devel] BitTorrent isos hosed (I think)

[Charles Lacour]

On Friday 19 December 2003 01:10, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
>   Hmm, binary isos #'s 2 and 3 on bittorrent appear to be hosed.  After
> almost completing (btdownloadcurses.py shows 100.0%, but still not
> completed), I figured I'd copy the isos somewhere else and try rsyncing
> against the ncsu mirror.  Iso 2 synced fine, but for some reason, iso 3
> would not sync properly.  I assume it has something to do with some
> weird interaction between an incomplete BT file and the way rsync
> works.  No matter, an lftp 'reget' command did the trick for that one.
> Now all my md5sums match what's on the whiteboxlinux.org download page.
>   So I figure since there are ZERO seeds and 47 leeches (according to
> torrentsniff -- find it on freshmeat.net), that I'll kill my BT session,
> copy the isos over with the correct md5sums and restart BT so I can seed
> the torrent.  No dice.  Isos #'s 2 and 3 get munged again and the
> md5sums revert to these bogus values:
>
> $ md5sum *.iso
> c2c3d56b46092373a77c01efb5bb4d5b  liberation-i386-binary-1-fixed.iso
> 14883fed99af37e24d59ce2a6357c8fc  liberation-i386-binary-2-fixed.iso
> 79375ec3b128e652d3d9c5a6f9495469  liberation-i386-binary-3-fixed.iso

Ron Polleti and I independently found the same thing (although my disc 3 
matches yours and my disc 2 doesn't).

You've gotten further than either of us -- should we set up a second Torrent 
with the good files, so that people on the list, at least, can get corrected 
versions earlier? That would give us a larger pool of people to feed the 
Torrent once the main one has good files.


Also, I feel very stupid asking this question, but reading the man page and 
experimenting isn't working, so what's the syntax to update it with rsync?

I keep getting errors when I try it.