ftp download of FC4
Thomas Taylor
linxt at comcast.net
Sun Sep 11 21:06:28 UTC 2005
On Sunday 11 September 2005 03:56, Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:39 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote:
> > On Saturday 10 September 2005 11:10, Dennis Myers wrote:
> > > I decided to have a look at FC4 and have run into a problem with the
> > > servers. I have tried six times on six different mirrors for the CD set
> > > and twice for the DVD and on everyone the MD5sums are way incorrect.
> > > So to see if it was my problem I d/l'd Mandriva 2006rc1 and it came
> > > down with no problem? Are the SHA1sums on Fedora mirrors wrong or any
> > > suggestions? TIA --
> > > Dennis M. linux user #180842
> >
> > Hi Dennis:
> >
> > md5sum is known to be broken in FC4.
>
> What? Since when? Bugzilla reference?
Hi Paul:
Several instances in the archives for both Fedora and
Fedora-Testing. These included advice to skip the install CD/DVD check which
were causing much trouble. Goes clear back to FC2.
>
> > Use sha1sum instead. That's why it shows sha1sum, not md5sum.
>
> My understanding was that sha1sum was simply a better, more secure
> algorithm and that was why FC4 uses that in preference to md5sum (i.e.
> the checksums provided are sha1sums, not md5sums).
>
Maybe they finally got it "working right" in FC4. When I tried it on FC4t2 it
failed but sha1sum worked fine.
> Paul.
> --
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>
P.S. - What is city-fan?
Tom
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