[lug] kernel.org FC12 checksums

[Davide Del Vento]

There is an error in the checksum file. It's SHA256 not SHA1.
Bye,
;Dav

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 14:59,  <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
> I'm trying to figure out if this is a site issue or an issue at my end, it
> appears there is some sort of download error for the FC12 DVD.
>
> Looks like tummy.com is not available yet, so the only site I've tried is
> the kernel.org URL. Using this download URL for Fedora Core 12 DVD ISO for
> i386:
> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/12/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso
>
> Related file:
> ftp://mirrors.kernel.org/fedora/releases/12/Fedora/i386/iso/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM
>
> According to the web page, for the SHA1SUM they show, the checksum should
> be:
> f0ad929cd259957e160ea442eb80986b5f01daaffdbcc7e5a1840a666c4447c71
>
> However, if I use the command line sha1sum, with or without the -b binary
> option, I get something different:
> 0dc8ed436f0b44874454a379e8de5ad057c0115d
>
> I seem to get the same SHA1SUM each time I download, and regardless of
> whether I use http or ftp. For ftp, I've used both firefox and wget. Not
> only does my SHA1SUM differ, it is quite far off in hash length. The
> system's sha1sum is a much shorter answer than the actual published SHA1SUM.
> Am I using sha1sum wrong? Is the CHECKSUM file wrong, and it isn't really
> SHA1?
>
> Dan Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net
>
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