On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 05:34:11PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have been getting these for the last week when doing an upgrade. I
> gather that either the package maintainer miscalculted the sum, or
> pacific net got a corrupted copy or they are trojaned. Does one just
> wait till they are fixed by someone? Its not really a Debian bug. I have
> been using --fix-missing to install the ones that have an OK MD5sum.
>
> Failed to fetch
> http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian/pool/main/g/gcc-defaults/cpp_3.3.4-2_powerpc.deb
> MD5Sum mismatch
> Failed to fetch
I think pacific's mirror is hosed.
Updating fedora2 with yum from their mirror gets similar results.
I wget'd the file and found it was all nulls.
They just replaced the broken hardware but it looks like
they don't know the extent of the damage.
(Bcc'ing to pacific mirror admin)
Matt
$ wget
http://mirror.pacific.net.au/linux/redhat/fedora/updates/2/i386//headers/subversion-0-1.0.6-1.i386.hdr
$ od -xc subversion-0-1.0.6-1.i386.hdr
0000000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
\0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
*
0023440 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
\0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0
0023454
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