Changing name of ISO checksum file

Douglas E. Warner silfreed at silfreed.net
Thu Feb 5 14:08:57 UTC 2009


On 02/05/2009 Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
> > > Not for me, because I want to store my .iso collection in one 
> directory 
> > > together with their hash files, therefore they need to have 
> different names.
> 
> Seconded. It's a pain when you want to download multiple ISO files 
> into one
> directory and the checksum files all have the same name.
> 

I agree that it's nice to have them named differently, but for users trying to
checksum the ISOs just after downloading it's much easier for us to say, "Run
sha256sum -c ISO-SUMS" rather than, "Do an 'ls *.sha*' and run either sha1sum
or sha256sum on these files".

-Doug



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