Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 12 Jan 2001 12:36:41 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: kernel.org signer broken? |
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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
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