[texhax] [MiKTeX] MiKTeX repository on CTAN: pgf.tar.lzma corrupt?

[George N. White III]

On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Hubert Lam <hubert at hubertlam.info> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> Can someone confirm that pgf.tar.lzma is corrupt on the MiKTeX CTAN repository and that corrupt file has replicated?
>

The nearest repository has a pgf.tar.lzma from November 2010.   This seems to be
intact:

$ wget http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/pgf.tar.lzma
--2011-05-28 09:17:13--
http://mirror.its.dal.ca/ctan/systems/win32/miktex/tm/packages/pgf.tar.lzma
Resolving mirror.its.dal.ca... 192.75.96.254
Connecting to mirror.its.dal.ca|192.75.96.254|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5606689 (5.3M) [application/x-tar]
Saving to: `pgf.tar.lzma'
[...]
2011-05-28 09:17:17 (1.37 MB/s) - `pgf.tar.lzma' saved [5606689/5606689]
$ ls -l pgf.tar.lzma
5476 -rw-r--r-- 1 x y 5606689 2010-11-01 10:10 pgf.tar.lzma
$ xz -t pgf.tar.lzma
[ no news is good news]

I can read the .tar archive after uncompressing.

> I have my own personal CTAN repository on a server at home with rsync running every 2 days. Last night I was still able to download a copy of pgf.tar.lzma and overwrite the rsync'ed version, but tonight after rsync ran again MiKTeX setup tells me that verification on the file failed.
>

Does MiKTeX maintain some independent checksums or sizes of the
individual package archives?   If so it is possible that the problem
is in the database and pgf.tar.lzma is fine.

-- 
George N. White III <aa056 at chebucto.ns.ca>
Head of St. Margarets Bay, Nova Scotia