Updating Busted By Busy Servers?

Scott Burns scott at mirrabooka.com
Wed Dec 3 00:35:35 UTC 2003


William Hooper wrote:

>IF the kernel-source was corrupt, it has been fixed since 9am Eastern US.
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It's a very big if, too.

Im my experience you get the error if the download gets stuck and times 
out.  You only have a fraction of the file.  There is no way in hell a 
fraction of a file is going to pass the GPG check.  It is, however, 
misleading and IMHO (of one who isn't doing the work ) the download 
program should check the file size before running the GPG signature to 
ensure a correct error message.

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Scott Burns
Mirrabooka Systems

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