Re: do md5sums differ across architectures?

["Kevin B. Hendricks" <khendricks@ivey.uwo.ca>]

Hi,

No, ftping in binary.

I am running textutils-2.0e6 rpm (the latest) from www.linuxppc.org which supplies
md5sum

I will check what I am running on Solaris.

hmm, I wonder which one is broken?

Thanks,

Kevin

On Thursday, February 22, 2001, at 10:49 AM, Ethan Benson wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 10:24:01AM -0500, Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I ran md5sum on a big bz2 archive on my ppc linux box and then
> > ftp'd it to my Sun Solaris 7 box at work.
> >
> > I checked it with md5sum on that machine and it differed.
> >
> > Okay I thought, a bad packet during upload.
> >
> > So I tried again, same result.
> >
> > I then passed back and forth (known good archives) and the md5sums
> > were different.
> >
> > Okay, I thought maybe an endian issue but both Solaris Sparc and PPC
> > Linux are big endian.
> >
> > Should these sums be different?
>
> no, that would rather defeat the purpose of md5sum hashes.  one of
> your md5sum programs is broken.
>
> or perhaps you ftp'd in text mode instead of binary mode.
>
> --
> Ethan Benson
> http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
>
>

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