In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, AIRCOMP, S.L. wrote: > De: Adam Aube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Para: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: lunes 9 de febrero de 2004 17:00 > Asunto: Re: md5 failed inside 3.0r2 ISOs > > >>On Monday 09 February 2004 07:35 am, AIRCOMP, S.L. wrote: >>> I just downloaded the 7 ISO images. The MD5 check of the images is fine >>> but when I mount it -o loop and do a second check using /md5sum.txt >>> hundreds files fail or are zero size. >> >>So the MD5 on the images themselves is fine, but when you check individual >>files in the image it fails? What if you copy files out to your main >>filesystem and check them there? >> >>I have seen behavior like this with CDs - if I try to verify the MD5 hash >>generated when the file was on the hard drive, it doesn't match. If I >>copy the file from the CD to my hard drive, the hashes match again. >> >>Adam > > > Excuse me but the behavior you suggest is even more weird than what I'm > experiencing. Any file should give equal MD5 hashes no matter if it is on a > disk or on a CD-ROM. > > This happens with at least two ISO images (1-NONUS and 2) downloaded from > the .es mirror (ftp.es.debian.org/debian-cd/3.0_r2/i386/). If this is > abnormal (and I believe it is) then there's something *very* wrong at that > mirror.
If the MD5 sum of the total .iso is correct than one can be fairly[1] sure the mirror is perfectly OK [1] OK, maybe the .es guys broke the MD5 checksum mechanism, and intentionally put different data in the .iso. But if they really did break MD5, why didn't they also fix-up the internal md5 checksums? joostje -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]