Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik_at_pobox.com)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date:	Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:55:13 -0400
To: gene.heskett@verizon.net

Gene Heskett wrote:
> bz2 has resulted in corrupted unpacks here on more than one occasion,
> and it has done it without any outwardly visible error when the
> md5sum was good. I've had it skip a whole subdir tree in a kernel
> unpack on at least 4 occasions, and a missing file someplace on
> several more occasions. I don't have any such troubles when dl'ing
> and using the .gz version of things.
>
> There has been at least one occasion where the .bz2 dl had a bad
> md5sum, again without any visible error as it was downloading, nuke
> it and go back and get the same file again and it was good. Again
> I've had no such troubles when using the .gz versions, so after a a
> while, I got into the habit of just gettng the .gz version and I've
> never had an instance of a bad md5sum that wasn't accompanied by site
> access problems.

There's definitely something else going on. I don't see how you can
blame bz2 for downloading problems. If this were true we would see a
_lot_ more problem reports than just one in >5 years.

        Jeff

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Relevant Pages

  • Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3
    ... >Gene Heskett wrote: ... >> occasion, and it has done it without any outwardly visible error ... >> There has been at least one occasion where the .bz2 dl had a bad ... before the unpack gave me a certain subdir in the tree and the -mm ...
    (Linux-Kernel)
  • Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3
    ... >| And thats one of the reasons I never dl the bz2 version. ... There has been at least one occasion where the .bz2 dl had a bad ... md5sum, again without any visible error as it was downloading, nuke ...
    (Linux-Kernel)