Re: Wierd files in Etch Isos
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 06:09:16AM -0700, David Roberts wrote:
>I've been assembling the etch isos from the jidgos in
>ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/etch/jigdo/, and
>I've noticed that there are some very strange file names in many isos
>that can only be downloaded from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/debian-superseded,
>for example a 104,434 byte file named "rvR4p_R0Rdzusk7-y1MYBQ" or a
>59,263 byte file named "3-Und2B4-ZObujNzw1BpLA." Random file names like
>this are kind of scary. What are these files? Are they just some kind of
>filler? Should I be worried about them?
They're just fallback files, which seem to be using the md5sum of the
file as the filename instead of the full path into the archive as
normal. Don't worry about it...
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