Bug#542834: cdrom-checker: MD5 check of the CD appears to abort on detecting the first MD5 mismatch.
Package: cdrom-checker
Version: 1.15 (lenny)
Boot method: CD-ROM using Lenny CD1
Image version:
http://laotzu.acc.umu.se/debian-cd/5.0.2a/i386/iso-cd/debian-502a-i386-C
D-1.iso
Date: 2009-08-21 15:30 UTC
Machine: Gateway E-4200
Processor: Pentium II 350MHz
Memory: 128MB
Comments/Problems:
MD5 check of the CD appears to abort on detecting the first MD5
mismatch.
When the progress meter was at about 78% complete, cdrom-checker
displayed an MD5 error for grub-pc, and I pressed <Enter> key for the
<Continue> prompt. cdrom-checker immediately asked "Check the integrity
of another CD-ROM?" without any mention of the rest of the packages on
the current CD-ROM that have presumably not been checked yet.
cdrom-checker should verify the MD5 checksum of all packages on the CD,
provide the number of packages with MD5 errors, if any, and at the
user's option list all packages with MD5 checksum errors.
cdrom-checker could also make at least a terse suggestion about what the
user should do about the MD5 checksum errors it detected.
Serious failure of cdrom-checker: The user may assume that the one MD5
checksum error that cdrom-checker reported is the only one on the CD.
The user may rightly or wrongly assume he won't need the package with
the MD5 error and that it is the only package with an MD5 error and
proceed with the installation.
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