download.fedora.com ftp h4x0r3d ?!?!?

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Mon Jul 5 19:06:44 UTC 2004


On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 10:06:19 -0700 (PDT), pulal lela wrote:

> The kernel announcement on Jul. 02 for fc2 kernel
> 2.6.6-1.435.2.3 had a bunch of checksums that are
> all wrong. E.g., the source had
> kernel-2.6.6-1.435.2.3.src.rpm listed with md5
> checksum
> 
> ddb4b34b166112b6e18278b99f3dec39
> 
> Whenever I download the thing from
> download.fedora.redhat.com, I get
> 
> e3d8299729b73d85e6c538248d04719c
> 
> What's going on -- are we all downloading 7r0j4nz3d
> kernels or what ?

1) Avoid the primary site, as it's often overloaded which can result
in broken downloads (depending on which download tool you use). Use
a nearby mirror server.

2) Verify downloaded RPM packages with: rpm -Kv filename
Fedora Core Updates are GPG signed.





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