[lug] file size/md5sum info at rpmfind.net

[qqq1one @yahoo.com]

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001, qqq1one @yahoo.com wrote:
>
> > Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2001 12:20:55 -0800 (PST)
> > From: "qqq1one @yahoo.com" <qqq1one at yahoo.com>
> > Reply-To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> > Subject: [lug] file size/md5sum info at
rpmfind.net
> >
> > I just downloaded sndconfig-0.65.2-1.i386 and
several
> > other files several times from rpmfind.net.  Each
time
> > I do, Netscape and "ls -l" report a different
> > (although consistent) file size compared to what
> > rpmfind.net has published.
> >
> > For instance,
> > 
> >
http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/redhat/7.2/i386/sndconfig-0.65.2-1.i386.html
> >
> > states that sndconfig-0.65.2-1.i386.rpm has a file
> > size of 558597 and MD5:
> > 182aaa827e91199ffffd7162f47d0689
> >
> > I get 233502 and 25d28879bebe7f0cd6464f0435c3e7d6.
 Of
> > course, if the file size is different I would
expect
> > the mds5um to be different too.  But I don't know
> > what's wrong: is the published info at rpmfind.net
> > wrong, or am I getting a modified file?
> >
>
> My md5sum is 25d28879bebe7f0cd6464f0435c3e7d6 
sndconfig-0.65.2-1.i386.rpm too.
>
> --
> Warren Sanders
> http://MontanaLinux.Org

OK, so you get the same thing I do.  I wonder what's
wrong here?  I guess I could rebuild the src rpm and
see what its md5sum comes out to, but that's not
guaranteed to work is it?  (since my setup isn't
necessarily the same as the one the rpm in question
was built on).

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