Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3

[Jeff Garzik]

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


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