Last modified: 2014-07-11 20:39:50 UTC
0) Problem Checksum files for incremental XML data dumps are not formatted correctly. This causes `md5sum' to throw an error. 1) Test case (shell) wget -nH -np -nv -N -r -l 2 http://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/incr/simplewiki (shell) cd other/incr/simplewiki/ (shell) ls simplewiki-20140703-md5sums.txt simplewiki-20140703-pages-meta-hist-incr.xml.bz2 simplewiki-20140703-stubs-meta-hist-incr.xml.gz (shell)$ cat simplewiki-20140703-md5sums.txt d03f3a91ef0273eb814f39a1d13788cb c51f2bd5ef6bd42ce65cf4a7fca72400 (shell)$ md5sum --check simplewiki-20140703-md5sums.txt md5sum: simplewiki-20140703-md5sums.txt: no properly formatted MD5 checksum lines found (shell)$ cat simplewiki-20140703-md5sums.txt d03f3a91ef0273eb814f39a1d13788cb c51f2bd5ef6bd42ce65cf4a7fca72400 2) Recommendation The correct format is: <checksum><two spaces><filename><newline> Sincerely Yours, Kent
