[Slapt-get-user] md5 checksum for kernel-ide is not correct!

Mamading Ceesay slapt-get-user@software.jaos.org
Fri, 9 Jan 2004 03:46:03 +0000


Hi,

I'm using slapt-get 0.9.8.  I've used rsync to create an inhouse slackware mirror, as I have multiple slackware machines to keep updated.  Now I have synced up with the latest patches, but when I run slapt-get --upgrade (after having done an --update of course) on the server holding the mirror, I get the following output:

Reading Package Lists... Done
The following packages will be upgraded:
  kernel-ide kernel-modules alsa-driver 
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 12138K of archives.
After unpacking 0K of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y
Downloading file:///home/ftp/slackware/slackware-9.1/ kernel-ide 2.4.24-i486-1 [1354K]...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed          Time             Curr.
                                 Dload  Upload Total    Current  Left    Speed
  0 1354k    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:--  0:00:00 --:--:--     0
md5 checksum for kernel-ide is not correct!

So I run the checksums by hand like so:

moc@anansi:/home/ftp/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches$ md5sum -c \ CHECKSUMS.md5 | less

Key snippets of the output are as follows:

./FILE_LIST: OK
./MANIFEST.bz2: OK
./PACKAGES.TXT: OK

./packages/kernel-ide-2.4.24-i486-1.tgz: OK
./packages/kernel-ide-2.4.24-i486-1.tgz.asc: OK
./packages/kernel-ide-2.4.24-i486-1.txt: OK

So a manual md5sum works.  Then I did a gpg --verify on the kernel-ide-2.4.24 package, an excerpt follows:

gpg: Signature made Tue Jan  6 22:22:27 2004 GMT using DSA key ID 40102233
gpg: Good signature from "Slackware Linux Project <security@slackware.com>"

Quite frankly, I am perplexed as to what is going on here and am reluctant to override using -no-md5 until I understand what is happening.

Any ideas?

If it helps, the command I'm using to keep the patches directory of my inhouse mirror up to date is as follows:

rsync -Pvptrl --delete \ rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-9.\1/patches/ /home/ftp/slackware/slackware-9.1/patches/

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