[Slackbuilds-users] GeoIP.dat.gz MD5SUM Failure

[David Woodfall]

>>> For:
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/slackbuildsdirectlinks/files/GeoIP/20170401/GeoIP.dat.gz
>>>
>>> Expected: 7bb92ae5ebb8b61c3aeac247657c6c8f
>>> Found:    99c46748c54cc18d98379f9f969f62c9
>>
>> I don't know what tool you are using to do that, but it's buggy and confused.
>
>looking at the message, i think it's sbopkg
>
>> GeoIP.dat.gz is the second item in DOWNLOAD in the .info file; the
>> second MD5SUM is 810c597f30be3706909ef3b7949bcf86; and
>> 810c597f30be3706909ef3b7949bcf86 is indeed the md5sum of GeoIP.dat.gz
>> when I download it manually.
>>
>> However, 7bb92ae5ebb8b61c3aeac247657c6c8f is the *third* MD5SUM in the
>> .info file, so that's a bug in whatever you are using.
>>
>> Additionally, 99c46748c54cc18d98379f9f969f62c9 *was* the *third*
>> MD5SUM in the previous revision of the .info file, so whatever tool
>> you are using is failing to realise that its cached version of
>> GeoIP.dat.gz is obsolete and should be redownloaded.
>
>Yes, that's correct.
>Since GeoIP.dat.gz has no version numbers, sbopkg doesn't know whether
>it's the latest one or not. It will only check whether it's available or
>not and i think your local copy is the previous version.
>
>See this commit
>https://git.slackbuilds.org/slackbuilds/commit/?id=0cc387d3e5ff475c0639ec7639642fb4a4c6d632
>
>The solution is to redownload again and it will be fine
>
>-- 
>Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

Yes, Willy, it was sbopkg. Doing a 'retry' on the download worked
fine.

Thanks

Dave