Re: Weirdness on ftp

[Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas apestaart org>]

On Tue, 2006-03-14 at 11:12 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I noticed some weirdness on ftp and was just curious as to the cause,
> and was hoping someone else would know.
> 
> I downloaded gstreamer-0.10.4.tar.bz2 and
> gst-plugins-base-0.10.5.tar.bz2 about 20 hours ago (between 00:00 and
> 01:00 UTC Tuesday). 

AFAIK they were not on gnome's ftp at all before.  the core tarball was
released on the gstreamer site last friday, and the plugins one
yesterday.

>  Today, I notice that both of those tarballs have
> recently been released (as of 15:00 UTC Tuesday or so).

that is probably when I actually copied them to window and
install-module'd them.

>   I check
> timestaps on window.gnome.org to see if the mail just showed up on
> ftp-release-list late, but the tarballs really are dated today.  I
> compare md5sums and note that my tarballs have the same md5sum.  And I
> thought I also remember Thomas having mentioned those releases as
> existing on other r-t emails recently--did I misunderstand?
> 
> So, did I just timewarp when I downloaded them last night?  Or did
> they get re-installed or something?

My guess is that you downloaded from the gstreamer site before and from
ftp.gnome.org after.  The md5sums are the same since they're the same
files, just copied at different times.

T

> 
> Confused,
> Elijah

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