[WBEL-devel] Wrong checksum in sources disc1 - mirror ftp.esat.net

[Marco Fais]

At 05.18 25/12/2003, you wrote:

>I doubt it.  When I tried to use BitTorrent to get the Source RPMs the
>first disc was the ONLY disc to check right against the web site and pass
>an "rpm -K" check.

Ok, found it:

root@backup[/mnt/temp/SRPMS]# rpm -K mgetty-1.1.30-3.src.rpm
mgetty-1.1.30-3.src.rpm: (sha1) dsa sha1 MD5 GPG NOT OK

And, comparing with a good mgetty-1.1.30-3.src.rpm package, I've found that 
the only difference is:

root@backup[~]# diff -u od-good.txt od-bad.txt
--- od-good.txt 2003-12-25 19:35:18.000000000 +0100
+++ od-bad.txt  2003-12-25 19:34:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -40424,7 +40424,7 @@
  09df00 0419 0c0a 1a4f e784 9b90 49db 8a70 d7c2
  09df10 3a06 f166 fc74 1916 03a4 227f a68b 8c36
  09df20 3e39 704c 191d 4ef0 7a89 977b 0aae bb0d
-09df30 b9fd 4f68 6bbf a7ba 1ccf b284 6edd 99bf
+09df30 b9f9 4f68 6bbf a7ba 1ccf b284 6edd 99bf
  09df40 084c 133b 49ca a57e b606 90c3 3651 13c4
  09df50 21f3 0d33 8b7f a9d2 f431 fc73 fed1 baa3
  09df60 342c 6d91 511e 6f06 7e04 fbf6 cab3 65a0

Note that in the bad package (the one with the + mark) only one byte 
differs, an FD from the original package traslated to F9 in the bad package.

Now, FD in binary is: 11111101
And, F9 in binary is: 11111001

So, just a silly bit of difference! I strongly suspect bad RAM in some 
equipment between the original source and the mirrors... also seeing what 
happened to the other images... but you know, maybe it's a totally 
different problem.

HTH, bye!


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