Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (845 mails)

[Jonathan Pryor <jpryor@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:44 +0200, Carlos E. R. wrote:
> The Sunday 2008-05-04 at 08:39 -0400, Jonathan Pryor wrote:
>
> > I would like to install and help test Beta 2.  Unfortunately, before I
> > can install it I'm running into a few problems...
> >
> > I downloaded the x86-64 DVD image via BitTorrent.
> >
> > Problem 1:
> > http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.0-Beta2/iso/torrent/
> > doesn't have an MD5SUMS or SHA1SUMS file, so I don't know if these files
> > are downloaded correctly.
>
> They are not needed.
>
> The .torrent file contain checksum information internally, so that when a 
> chunk is downloaded incorrectly, it retries till it gets the chunk 
> correct. That's why the .torrent file is big: it contains the checksums 
> for all the chunks.
>
> Now, if KTorrent is unable to produce a perfect downloaded iso, and even 
> more, unable to correct the possible errors, that's a bug of KTorrent. 
> Don't use it.
>
> Use the plain "BitTorrent", for instance (btdownloadgui or 
> btdownloadcurses), or probably azureus. I have sucesfully used 
> btdownloadcurses to reconstruct bad downloads produced by KTorrent or 
> ftp.
>
> Now, if after a download using a good client is finished, Yast says the 
> image is wrong, that's a bug in yast.

And in order to determine in which of these apps the bug actually occurs
in...

It would be really handy to have the MD5SUM, no? :-)

 - Jon


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