On Sat, May 20, 2000 at 12:04:08PM +0100, Riley Williams wrote:
> I have now downloaded the 2.2.14 tarball from ftp.kernel.org
> three times, and the listing shows the three tarballs as being
> the same size. However, md5sum reported DIFFERENT checksums for
> the last two downloads, and only the last download shows the
> options as quoted.
>
> Unfortunately, I no longer have the faulty download - I did the
> md5sum on it prior to overwriting it with the third download -
> but I would LOVE to know how it is possible to get DIFFERENT
> files of the SAME length in this way.
>
> Alan: Can you please advise me what the md5sum for the said
> kernel tarball - linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2 - should be?
bash-2.03$ ftp ftp.ca.kernel.org
ftp> cd pub/linux/kernel/v2.2
ftp> ls *14*
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 12936883 Jan 4 19:40 linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 0 0 248 Jan 4 19:40 linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2.sign
ftp> get linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2.sign
ftp> quit
bash-2.03$ cat linux-2.2.14.tar.bz2.sign
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.0.0 (GNU/Linux)
Comment: See http://www.kernel.org/signature.html for info
iD8DBQA4ck7z8qV13B4ah4IRAuwfAJ4rZ09W/NudZEwUDRS+BHFiMKBVVACg6VxE
JbOz3OVIfGnd3Jp+VGD9Oe8=
=ce5e
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
rather better than md5sum.
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