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Date:      Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:01:20 -0600
From:      Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com>
To:        Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: "Checksum mismatch -- will transfer entire file"
Message-ID:  <20091228210120.GH98917@dan.emsphone.com>
In-Reply-To: <20091225064309.GA86796@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>
References:  <20091201092938.GA49340@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20091225064309.GA86796@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru>

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In the last episode (Dec 25), Victor Sudakov said:
> > I cvsup the FreeBSD CVS repository daily from cvsup.ru.freebsd.org. 
> > Both the client and the server run CVSup Software version: SNAP_16_1h,
> > Protocol version: 17.0.
> > 
> > Recently I noticed that there are lots of messages "Checksum mismatch --
> > will transfer entire file" about all kinds of downloaded files.
> > 
> > What could be the reason? Is my CVS repository corrupt or what? Is there
> > a way to check the integrity of the entiry repository?
> > 
> > I have read about there being a "checksum mismatch" problem in CVSup
> > version before 15.4, but I am using SNAP_16_1h already.
> > 
> > If this question is offtopic here, please direct me to a more relevant
> > mailing list.  TIA.
>
> Am I the only one to have this problem?

I see this too.  Running cvsup -k and looking at the "bad" files shows that
the differences seem to be commit dates before 2000; one end has them as
"99", and the other has "1999", which causes the checksum to change.

-- 
	Dan Nelson
	dnelson@allantgroup.com



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