experiences building Live CD with systemtap and kernel debuginfo

[Roland McGrath]

> I noticed that a md5.sum was computed and written in the directory. This md5.sum 
>   differs from the md5sum computed generated from "md5sum 
> Fedora-6-systemtap-20070302.iso" on sourceware or my local machine. Note that 
> both the md5sums computed by the commandline on sourceware and the upload 
> machine agree.

It might have been a cron job that ran while you were in the middle of
writing the file.  In fact, md5.sum predates the file by 7 minutes.
I bet it will fix itself before too long.