MD5 discrepancies with 3.0 r2 ISO contents
I found several discrepancies between the md5sum.txt and the contents
for the ISO images (downloaded from mirror ftp://ftp.lug.udel.edu/
pub/iso-images/Debian/3.0_r2/i386/) for 3.0 r2.
Most of the CDs consistently show two problems: 1. './README.html',
which I see others have reported, and 2. a bunch of files in
./dists/testing - a directory that doesn't exist. (./dists/testing is a
zero byte plain file, not a directory on my CDs.)
I assume these are harmless, and might be good things to note on
http://www.debian.org/CD/.
I also noticed the problem with './pool/main/f/fgfs-base/
fgfs-base_0.7.9-1_all.deb' on disk 3, as someone else reported on the
list. That's FlightGear flight simulator? Seems like another item worth
adding to the last minute notes.
Lastly, I'm seeing far more extensive problems on disk 1 (about 1700
files not matching). So much so, that I'm suspecting the integrity of
the image I downloaded. Though it could be a messed up md5sum.txt.
Unlike for the other disks, which had 16 files from the
./dists/testing/ directory listed in the md5sum.txt, this one includes
1122. Similarly there are a whole bunch of files listed from the
'./dists/woody/
main/disks-i386/current/ directory, which doesn't exist on the CD.
(Similar to testing it is just a plain file.)
In addition to the missing files, there were a bunch of MD5 mismatches,
such as:
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/safe/driver-1.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/safe/driver-2.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/safe/driver-3.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.44/safe/driver-4.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.20/safe/driver-1.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.20/safe/driver-2.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.20/safe/driver-3.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.20/safe/driver-4.bin'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/woody/main/disks-i386/3.0.23-2002-05-21/images-1.20/safe/driver-5.bin'
[...]
md5sum: MD5 check failed for './dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Release'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages'
md5sum: MD5 check failed for
'./dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz'
Probably not a good sign if './dists/testing/main/binary-i386/Release'
doesn't match, yet the file on the CD appears fine:
-----------------------------
Archive: stable
Version: 3.0r2
Component: main
Origin: Debian
Label: Debian
Architecture: i386
-----------------------------
This adds to my suspicion that the md5sum.txt is where the problem is,
though I would have expected someone else to have reported this by now
if that was the case.
It'd be handy to be able to check the MD5 of the ISO images, but there
doesn't appear to be an md5sum.txt distributed with the mirrored
images, or posted on http://www.debian.org/CD/.
-Tom
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