From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:37:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:37:20 -0500 Received: from neon-gw.transmeta.com ([209.10.217.66]:8455 "EHLO neon-gw.transmeta.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 12 Jan 2001 15:36:57 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5F6AD9.8DAD6ABC@transmeta.com> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:36:41 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Organization: Transmeta Corporation X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.0 i686) X-Accept-Language: en, sv, no, da, es, fr, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matti Aarnio CC: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl, ftpadmin@kernel.org, jmd@foozle.turbogeek.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: kernel.org signer broken? In-Reply-To: <3A5F67D4.D096B191@transmeta.com> <20010112223415.J25659@mea-ext.zmailer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Matti Aarnio wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 12:23:48PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > > Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote: > > > > The signature on man-pages-1.34.tar.gz is bad: > > > > > > Hmm, thought I had corrected that already. > > > Is it correct now? > > > > > > Andries > > > > Because an updated signature has the same timestamp and size, it can take > > up to 24 hours for it to hit ftp.kernel.org, and even longer to propagate > > to the mirrors, unfortunately. > > Ok, then rsync won't find it either unless driven in > file CRC verification mode (which is not usual...) > Right; kernel.org does that once a day. > You *must* change its time (e.g. with touch). > Unfortunately, you can't -- because the signer relies on the timestamp to know if the file it is mirroring has changed. Probably the best solution is to touch the original file. -hpa -- at work, in private! "Unix gives you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot." http://www.zytor.com/~hpa/puzzle.txt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/