[Scottish] RH8.0 - Dodgy files on ISO ?

[Paul Millar]

On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Mark McRitchie wrote:
> > I found that some of the RPM's came up with either MD5 or GPG 
> > errors. I
> > simply re-downloaded the affected RPM's from ftp.mirror.ac.uk 
> > and all's
> > now well but I wondered if anyone else has found this ?
> 
> I know someone who had a problem with CD1 from mirror.co.uk failing the md5
> check.
> Funnily enough, I know of a couple of other people who downloaded from
> mirror that got the same md5sum as he did, so probably not a general
> download screwup...

Could these people be behind the same transparent proxy? (just playing
devil's advocate..)


> He emailed them, but I dunno if he ever heard back.

I know they had some hard disk(s) fail on them a little while back (month
or so).  I found out because they switched disks and restarted the
mirroring, but they forgot to mirror RedHat's security updates (!!) Its
possible the failing disks might have something to do with the corruption.

Either way, its slightly scary and an example that digital copies aren't
necessarily impervious to copy degradation ;^)

Paul.

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