[PATCH] Include a link to /verify for pre-releases

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Fri Oct 23 14:36:07 UTC 2009


---

Some beta users asked how to verify their downloads.  Others didn't
know the checksum used SHA-256 instead of SHA-1.  As a first step,
adding a link to the /verify page might help.

It's not the best, as users would have to find the *-CHECKSUM file
manually.  This is mitigated a little because the verify page states
"to verify your ISO, start by downloading the proper CHECKSUM file
into the same directory as the ISO."

If we need to be more explicit, we could add links to the CHECKSUM
files on get-prerelease, but that page is already a bit cluttered.

Anyone opposed to adding the /verify link for now?  Or does anyone
see a problem with how I've done it here?  I don't know the templating
stuff very well, so I could be doing it all wrong.  The site did
build for all languages with this applied, which seems like a good
sign. :)

 fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-prerelease.html |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-prerelease.html b/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-prerelease.html
index 25d08b8..f7729a5 100644
--- a/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-prerelease.html
+++ b/fedoraproject.org/data/content/get-prerelease.html
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
   <body class="get">
     <h2>${Markup(_('Fedora, For You.'))}</h2>
     <p class="warning">${Markup(_('This is pre-release software. The Fedora Project makes no guarantees as to its suitability or usefulness. All issues should be reported via the <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/">Red Hat Bugzilla</a>.  Read the <a href="%(relnotes_url)s">Release Notes</a> for more information.') % {'relnotes_url': _('http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html/')})}</p>
+    <p class="note">${Markup(_('After downloading an ISO, <a href="%s/%s/verify">verify</a> it.') % (path, lang))}</p>
     <h3>${Markup(_('Install Media'))}</h3>
     <ul class="downloadbox installdvd">
       <li>
-- 
1.6.5.1

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