Re: MD5 checksum


Subject: Re: MD5 checksum
From: nathan r. hruby (nhruby@arches.uga.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 25 2002 - 12:02:27 MST


On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Andy Hocker wrote:

>
> I downloaded the xemacs PPC RPM from the Yellow Dog
> ftp site last night and got an MD5 checksum error when I
> tried to install it. So I tried again by installing directly
> from the ftp site (i.e., "rpm -ivh ftp://blah.blah.blah/blah...")
> and got the same checksum error. Does this indicate a problem
> with the package, or is it just getting corrupted in transit
> every time? (It's 18.7 MB and I've got a dialup connection,
> so I could certainly believe something went wrong in the hour
> or so it takes to download it, but twice in a row?)
>

Looks like the rpm file on the server is corrupted. If Yellowdog is the
master server, then most likely the YellowDog mirrors would have the same
corrupt package file.

Suggestion: Grab the .src and --rebuild it. And email the TSS folks and
ask them to rebuild / reput the package :)

-n

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