[arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.28.1-1

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Mon Jan 19 09:36:51 EST 2009


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 8:34 AM, Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Xavier schrieb:
>>
>> Shouldn't pacman md5 check catch bad download?
>> The md5 of kernel26-2.6.28.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz is normally stored in
>> the database, and pacman normally checks this after a download.
>
> This could only have happened due to some corruption during extraction!
> Sounds weird, but these things happen occasionally.

Yeah I would put it on extraction corruption if in fact the md5sum
download check didn't alert you to any errors. It's a shame you didn't
hold onto that old package file though...

You don't have any bad sectors on your HDD, do you?

-Dan


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