Re: 18/6/2025 torrent for debian image are dammaged
[ Please keep the CC to the debian-cd list - that's where discussion
should be. ]
Hey Gilbert,
On Fri, Jun 20, 2025 at 09:42:31PM +0200, Gilbert TdW-cpm wrote:
>
>Thanks you for taking the time to check the problem, I know you're
>busy.
>
>You managed to download an iso image via torrent and the torrent came
>on the debian site : I knew that you're a computer Guru, but that's
>another proof ! Here the torrents were rejected by all the torrent
>software tried and I'm not surprised : looking inside I saw
>suspicious garbege. But as you managed, the trouble come from my
>side.
*Which* torrent software packages did you try, and what errors did
they report? More information would be helpful if you're reporting
potential issues.
>A question at last : my common sense keep continue to worry about the
>torrents size, do you think a 53k torrent to download an unique ISO
>to be normal ?
Yes, it's perfectly fine. The data in a torrent file like this is just
metadata about the ISO image - checksums, sizes etc. It doesn't need
to be large.
>Also : the iso you downloaded had a crc or checksum that matched the
>one brought by the debian siteo n multiple iso's ? The only ISO that
>had correct crc or sum were the nightly ones, the standard ISO's on
>other parts of the debian site all brought me uncorrect checksums (I
>didn't tried the netinstal ones)..
I specifically tested the netinst here, as that was the torrent you
mentioned in your original mail. I've just tested another torrent at
random
(http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/release/current/i386/bt-dvd/debian-12.11.0-i386-DVD-1.iso.torrent)
and it also works just fine here.
2ab1adf02f9f3b2c090d7f50d153c2da3a854bfcd52f551341a2129fe3a2894b debian-12.11.0-i386-DVD-1.iso
Could you check the checksums of the torrent files you have too?
Something is broken here, but I don't think it's the torrent files
that we're publishing .
--
Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com
"I used to be the first kid on the block wanting a cranial implant,
now I want to be the first with a cranial firewall. " -- Charlie Stross
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