[ale] md5sum weirdness on firefox

[Jerry Yu]

I downloaded the same file using 'wget' from the URL in your post.
$ md5sum firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
1284459a13f9898487f06ee925876b2c  firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm

So, your md5sum is messed up somehow. To check,

   - which md5sum
   - which md5sum | xargs rpm -qf
   - which md5sum | xargs rpm -qf | xargs rpm --verify

   On my FC6, I have coreutils-5.97-12.3.fc6
   which md5sum | xargs md5sum
   d4cbe115e872499ddd8dfebfe5bf37cb  /usr/bin/md5sum


On 3/5/07, Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi folks,
>
> Since firefox-1.5.0.10 is out and working fine, this is a matter of
> curiosity, not system stability. But if you have some spare time on
> your hands maybe you can help me figure out this puzzle.
>
> I'm running Fedora 6. I downloaded firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm from
> http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/i386/.
> When I tried to install it, yum complained about the md5sum of one
> of the files. The Nice Folks At Redhat think it was a corrupted
> download.
>
> I don't think the download was corrupted, and here's why: I downloaded
> it several more times (using yum, firefox, wget, and curl), and each
> time I got an identical, non-working file. I downloaded the file from
> redhat directly to a third computer (a Solaris box that isn't
> administered by me), then uploaded the non-working file from my
> computer to the Solaris box, and compared the files: they were
> identical.
>
> However, on the Fedora box on which I'm trying to install firefox:
> spoo:~/ff$ md5sum firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
> c1a703baffce31371ce91d2b830220d7  firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
>
> On the Solaris box:
> occs:/tmp/jbayes/thru_spoo$ md5 firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
> MD5 (firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm) = 1284459a13f9898487f06ee925876b2c
>
> On the computer belonging to the Nice Folks At Redhat:
> [matej at hubmaier ~]\$ md5sum firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
> 1284459a13f9898487f06ee925876b2c  firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
>
> My question: Why do the checksums differ? If your answer is "because
> the files differ", then how is it that the file transferred from
> redhat to spoo to occs has the same checksum as the one on hubmaier at
> redhat?
>
> Further details are available at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=228915 . If you
> look at that, be aware that matej's installation using the --test
> option will not cause the bug to manifest -- it complains about the
> mismatch only when I attempt an install for real.
>
> Joe
>
> p.s. Would someone mind checking the following sha1sum to make sure it
> matches? My current hypothesis is that my md5sum binary might be
> messed up in some bizarre way.
> spoo:~/ff$ sha1sum firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
> 87f92c482cb7fda31d6f2d1c21213751a9e814ea  firefox-1.5.0.9-3.fc6.i386.rpm
>
> --
> Joe Bayes -- jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com
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