Re: md5sum checks in disks-sparc (fwd)
Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> Vincent Renardias <vincent@ldsol.com> writes:
>
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 01:29:55 -0400 (EDT)
> > From: HenSiong Tan <tan@stat.psu.edu>
> > To: vincent@waw.com
> > Subject: md5sum checks in disks-sparc
> >
> > Apparently, the md5sum.txt in
> > ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink/main/disks-sparc/2.1.8.1-1999-03-01
> >
> > indicated that drv1440.bin has a checksum of
> > 70cfe629c92d85e9e12a619f36f913b0
> >
> > But what I downloaded has a checksum of
> > e8e63402ec7391e8edc847f1eadcb1d7
> >
> > The other files check out correctly. Could you verify this?
>
> Hmm. I have indeed verified this on master.debian.org.
>
> However, I can't be sure whether this means that drv1440.bin has been
> hacked, or the md5sums.txt file is in error. Eric D., can you confirm
> this?
Well, the .changes file shows the same bad checksum, but the contents of the
image is not altered at all.
In effect, I discovered a while ago that mounting the image read-write through
the loop device changes the filesystem informations in the superblock,
therefore I guess I did that in the middle of building the boot-floppies
package, just after the md5sum was computed :-((
Sorry for the mess, I will try to avoid it next time.
Anyway you can use this image safely.
Regards.
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delaunay@lix.polytechnique.fr | En les supprimant." Henri Jeanson (1900-1970)
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