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

Johnny Hughes mailing-lists@hughesjr.com
Fri, 19 Dec 2003 02:09:29 -0600


The command I use to rsync (the whole 3.0 directory and put it on my
hard drive at /pub/whitebox) is:

rsync -r ks.physics.ncsu.edu::whitebox/3.0 /pub/whitebox

- Johnny Hughes

On Fri, 2003-12-19 at 01:50, Charles Lacour wrote:
> 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.
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