Re: MD5 mismatches on downloads from ftp.de.debian.org

[Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de>]

Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:

> * Adam Lackorzynski 
>
> | The mismatches come from an incorrect resync after the archive move. The
> | contents of the files itself were actually ok.
> | To fix the archive I've placed a little script in the root directory
> | that wgets the corresponding files as rsync won't do it due to same time
> | stamps and sizes. You could also just remove them and resync.
>
>>From man rsync:
>
>        -c, --checksum
>               This forces the sender to checksum all files using a
>               128-bit MD4 checksum before transfer.  The checksum is
>               then explicitly checked on the receiver and any files of
>               the same name which already exist and have the same
>               checksum and size on the receiver are not transferred.
>               This option can be quite slow.

>From /etc/rsyncd.conf:
        refuse options = checksum dry-run

Messing up all timestamps (tocuh every file) has the same effect
though in the end. Just means the local file gets copied.

MfG
        Goswin