Some good labelling system so we know it is xubuntu-gutsy-alternate rather than ubuntu

[Adam Miller]

I blame firefox then :)

-Adam

On 6/16/07, vidd <vidd at crosslink.net> wrote:
>
> Adam Miller wrote:
> > Its strange that those two text files yield the same md5sum because i
> > have had many iso images have different md5sum hashes after their
> > names have been changed ... its rather possible it was a fluke ... i
> > will investigate further and if i am wrong, i apologize for
> > distributing false information.
> >
> > -Adam
> >
> > On 6/15/07, *shirish* <shirishag75 at gmail.com
> > <mailto:shirishag75 at gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> >     > Message: 5
> >     > Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:56:33 -0500
> >     > From: "Jim Campbell" <jwcampbell at gmail.com
> >     <mailto:jwcampbell at gmail.com>>
> >     > Subject: Re: Some good labelling system so we know it is
> >     >         xubuntu-gutsy-alternate rather than ubuntu
> >     > To: "Xubuntu Development Discussion"
> >     <xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
> >     <mailto:xubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com>>
> >     > Message-ID:
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> >     <mailto:cc5454020706142056j65983326g7b77e37696c97ceb at mail.gmail.com
> >>
> >     > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
> >
> >     <snipped>
> >
> >     > I don't think that adding the dates would be the way to go just
> >     because some
> >     > people use rsync to update their images to the latest
> >     version.  It saves
> >     > them download time, and also saves some bandwidth.  The
> >     rsync-updating
> >     > approach wouldn't work if there were different time-stamped file
> >     names for
> >     > each new image.
> >     >
> >     > Also, if someone needs to verify the date of their image for
> >     some reason,
> >     > they could just check the md5sum.  I think there's even a
> >     date-related file
> >     > included in the ISO image somewhere, but I don't recall what it
> >     is off-hand.
> >     >
> >     > I'll bring this iso-filename matter up to the team that builds
> >     the images
> >     > soon.  I'll try to see if there's been any discussion on this
> >     elsewhere
> >     > first, though.  I have to imagine that it's come up
> >     before...  Maybe there's
> >     > a reason for it being the way it is.
> >     >
> >     > Jim
> >     > --
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> >
> >     I would be interested to know if you do find anything if such a
> >     discussion took place before for I'm sure they had this same issue
> >     when kubuntu was launched or should have been unless they had
> >     seperate
> >     repositories or some other means of differentiation that we have no
> >     idea about. Thanx for reminding me of rsync though :P
> >
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> It is strange....
> I attempted to see if i can mimic the action by making a dummy ISO and
> downloading it to see if whatever makes the (2).iso actually changed the
> data in the .iso . It would appear there is some coding that makes
> duplicate copies NOT overwrite the original, and change the name
> instead. This is NOT typical download behavior....the default is to
> always overwrite, rename, or cancel. What ever is causing the files to
> rename themselves is probably also changing the md5sum.
>
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