From owner-freebsd-eol@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 1 09:42:52 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-eol@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CF2A106564A for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:42:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vicmrml@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f54.google.com (mail-fx0-f54.google.com [209.85.161.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAA78FC0C for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm11 with SMTP id 11so5134013fxm.13 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:42:50 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PC4J+ejsZXaFFdPB98cK+Y4IS5sr6ajprJ2KZvxtQf4=; b=ARk2pcCR6wJSp80IphiEXAzGhOTP54/KIz+rQUfgQmx3ULyTRMydilaUn45l/glp3g pJGvzPkMkCe0nfMsS13hprPSWbbk8BEYnIxRTbcYUXtwNt4Y0cIRRMp5wCxm7wAZYmnC JD5B98+AMcuJHseQVA5xSvnrvtVK5FCjDW3iE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=fnVcNrfbvBPcZ9RYhFcXmo8Nlm5PJJwX4biAaN964Baalef0fAorRZPwqc2jed6ofy p4nZxucGqPgTset1TFFe0LHkcUfYa5qLe7VDL5UpfzfH+L6Zds9v3gslsCwRnev4a5qr AyCR18owJTmPkte6tOrLTXFB5corf5t1+sy0Q= Received: by 10.223.40.85 with SMTP id j21mr2616265fae.22.1306919916873; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [127.0.0.1] ([188.123.241.56]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id l26sm307793fah.38.2011.06.01.02.18.36 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 02:18:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE603E9.2080206@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:18:33 +0400 From: Victor User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; ru; rv:1.9.2.17) Gecko/20110414 Thunderbird/3.1.10 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-eol@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Errors in the FreeBSD ftp archive X-BeenThere: freebsd-eol@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Peer support for software no longer supported by the FreeBSD project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:42:52 -0000 Dear FreeBSD developer team! Some time ago I have downloaded from the ftp://ftp-archive.freebsd.org FreeBSD archive a number of old distributions for various architectures in the form of iso-images. When I checked these iso-files by control sums applied to these distributions I detected a number of errors. I met mistakes of two kinds. For some files hash-sums calculated by the program on my computer didn't coincide wih the hash-sums kept in the text files situated in the directories with image-files. I decided these errors occure due to incorrect data transmission by Internet and downloaded these files for the second time. However when I compared these files downloaded for the second time with corresponding files downloaded during the first download session by contents (byte by byte) they matched. So there were no errors during file transfer due to bad Internet connection or incorrect work of my computer. Another type of mistakes is linked with differences between contents of the directory, containing iso-images, and files, listed in the control-sums text files. In some cases directory contains more files then listed in the checksum file, in other cases vice versa the checksum file specifies files that don't exist in the distribution directory. I sent a message to your bug report service, however no answer followed. Perhaps the bug service doesn't consider problems of such kind and I was to appeal to another part of FreeBSD community with such a request. Here is my message to the bug service in which I described the problem thoroughly: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=156537 . I don't know whether I addressed the correct mailing list with my problem. If not, please give me the right mailing list or e-mail box, gathering part of your community responsible for supporting this archive. Respectively yours, Victor.