From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 23:17:42 -0400
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On Thursday 30 September 2004 17:55, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>Gene Heskett wrote:
>> bz2 has resulted in corrupted unpacks here on more than one
>> occasion, and it has done it without any outwardly visible error
>> when the md5sum was good.  I've had it skip a whole subdir tree in
>> a kernel unpack on at least 4 occasions, and a missing file
>> someplace on several more occasions.  I don't have any such
>> troubles when dl'ing and using the .gz version of things.
>>
>> There has been at least one occasion where the .bz2 dl had a bad
>> md5sum, again without any visible error as it was downloading,
>> nuke it and go back and get the same file again and it was good. 
>> Again I've had no such troubles when using the .gz versions, so
>> after a a while, I got into the habit of just gettng the .gz
>> version and I've never had an instance of a bad md5sum that wasn't
>> accompanied by site access problems.
>
>There's definitely something else going on.  I don't see how you can
>blame bz2 for downloading problems.  If this were true we would see
> a _lot_ more problem reports than just one in >5 years.
>
> Jeff

Just one in 5 years, the one being me?  Not really Jeff.  Someplace in 
this lists archives is a squawk from me dating back maybe 2 years, 
detailing that I had to go download such and such a kernel from 
kernel.org repeatedly (I think it as 3 times, on a dialup circuit) 
before the unpack gave me a certain subdir in the tree and the -mm 
patch upchucked over missing src files it wanted to patch.  At that 
time IIRC, someone suggested I use the .gz's and I've had no further 
problems.  Whomever made the suggestion semi-indicated that what I 
was seeing wasn't unknown to the responder.  Not in so many words 
mind you, but the general tone of the message sure said it.

I also got bummed a couple of times back in the very early days of bz2 
because it beat the amiga's default .lha compression quite a bit.  
But it didn't always work.  IIRC there was a flurry of bz2 
development 2-3 years back, and maybe thats no longer true.  Me, I 
don't fix what isn't broken, so I get the .gz's only.  On dsl it 
doesn't hurt so much. :)

-- 
Cheers, Gene
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