From: Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@...>
Date: 2004-12-28T16:32:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Checksum bad again ?

From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: Checksum bad again ?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 16:04:52 +0900

Hi Matz,

 Thank you very much for your quick reply ! :)

 That is an interesting thing...
 I downloaded ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz with firefox 1.0 first ... which gaves
 me the wrong md5-sum.

 But I was able to unpack, compile and install ruby (that was the
 """final reason""" for my post...otherwise I would have thought, that
 the archive get corrupted.

 After receiving your email I tried it again...this time with lftp. I
 checked for bin mode (which is the default) and downloaded ruby.

 This time the md5 sum was ok.

 So the question I have to answer is....
 Why I could unpack, compile and install the "corrupted" archive
 with the wrong checksum? What does FireFox do to my downloads ?
 The world is a miracle place ... ;)

 (Or in other words: Even if the Ruby-Archive is corrupted, Ruby can
 be compiled and installed from it. WHAT AN AMAZING LANGUAGE! :) X-)

 Have a nice day !
 Meino


 

> Hi,
> 
> In message "Re: Checksum bad again ?"
>     on Tue, 28 Dec 2004 06:13:10 +0100 (CET), Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> |        * <URL:ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/ruby-1.8.2.tar.gz>
> |    
> |    md5sum is 8ffc79d96f336b80f2690a17601dea9b
> 
> | I downloaded ruby from this link again and md5sum the archive.
> | The checksum was:
> | b12eda7df4aa903bafd9d7f57ad4098e
> |
> | How many versions of the same 1.8.2. release are out now?
> 
> The 8ffc79d96f336b80f2690a17601dea9b is the right one.  If you get
> otherwise, try checking transfer mode of your ftp client.
> 
> 							matz.
>