[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).

OK, I just went to Red Hat and downloaded the same rpm
and did a diff and it came back with no differences. 
So it looks like the file size and md5sum at
rpmfind.net are incorrect.

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