[CentOS] md5sum mismatch between CentOS 6.4 and 6.5 repository

[Mogens Kjaer]

On 12/06/2013 12:49 PM, Lars Hecking wrote:
> Something got mixed up somewhere. The first one (md5 20bb...) is from the x86_64
>   branch, both 6.4 and 6.5, and the second one (md5 d37f...) is from the i386
>   branch, also 6.4 and 6.5.
>
> d37fe4404a7a5fdb27b29f9b5ed09c73  ./6.4/os/i386/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
> 20bb02e6f3b7b71e09dcaff7f3b0ca02  ./6.4/os/x86_64/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
> d37fe4404a7a5fdb27b29f9b5ed09c73  ./6.5/os/i386/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
> 20bb02e6f3b7b71e09dcaff7f3b0ca02  ./6.5/os/x86_64/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

Hm, am I the only mirror maintainer that runs hardlinkpy on the tree
after each mirror?

Why are there different md5sum's on these files?

They are noarch rpms, so they should be identical in i386 and x86_64?

I get the following:

# md5sum `locate python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm`
d37fe4404a7a5fdb27b29f9b5ed09c73 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.4/os/i386/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
20bb02e6f3b7b71e09dcaff7f3b0ca02 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.4/os/x86_64/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
d37fe4404a7a5fdb27b29f9b5ed09c73 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.5/os/i386/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
d37fe4404a7a5fdb27b29f9b5ed09c73 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

and:
# ls -li `locate python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm`
98845547 -rw-rw-r-- 3 mk 500 30844 Mar 26  2012 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.4/os/i386/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
98315857 -rw-rw-r-- 1 mk 500 30844 Mar 26  2012 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.4/os/x86_64/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
98845547 -rw-rw-r-- 3 mk 500 30844 Mar 26  2012 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.5/os/i386/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm
98845547 -rw-rw-r-- 3 mk 500 30844 Mar 26  2012 
/var/ftp/pub/mirrors/centos/6.5/os/x86_64/Packages/python-slip-dbus-0.2.20-1.el6_2.noarch.rpm

Mogens

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