[Lula] md5sum weirdness on firefox

[Dan Kegel]

On 3/5/07, Joe Bayes <jbayes at spoo.mminternet.com> wrote:
> 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/.
>... I downloaded
> it several more times, 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?

Because your computer hates you?

Seriously, though: how did you download it?  If you downloaded it each
time using something like Firefox, it was probably retrieving the
same corrupted file from its cache each time.
- Dan