On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Todd Zullinger <tmz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was answering to the user on this list. I wasn´t suggesting that Red Hat or Fedora.org points to that blog.
Surely. I just compiled a win32 version ofa a GPL linux utility with Cygwin minutes ago.
That would be nice. But also, a text file on the file repositories explaining the files verification process would be nice.
Call me old-fashioned, but I´m used to the time when every FTP site had a "00_index.txt" file contained a "ls -lR" of the whole file tree and also a README file on each folder explaining what was in there.
Likewise, including a tiny text file alongside the iso images would help answer the obvious question to someone whom has just downloaded the file(s) "Great, now how do I verify these images are OK?".
FC
Fernando Cassia wrote:I wouldn't say that downloading an executable from some blog is the
> See here
> http://blog.nfllab.com/archives/152-Win32-native-md5sum,-sha1sum,-sha256sum-etc..html
>
> Google is your friend. :)
best thing to recommend.
I was answering to the user on this list. I wasn´t suggesting that Red Hat or Fedora.org points to that blog.
Especially not if the goal is to check the
integrity of the Fedora .iso images.
I'm not sure what to recommend for Windows users honestly. With the
recent work that has gone into Fedora to allow cross-compiling windows
binaries, it might be possible to build an sha256sum.exe that could be
hosted on fedoraproject.org.
Surely. I just compiled a win32 version ofa a GPL linux utility with Cygwin minutes ago.
That might be a little more trustworthy
for us to suggest Windows users use to verify the .iso file we
distribute.
What about https://fedoraproject.org/verify ?
> PS: Adding a "checksum-verification.txt´text file explaining that
> users need to use sha256sum, and where to obtain it, would be cool.
That would be nice. But also, a text file on the file repositories explaining the files verification process would be nice.
Call me old-fashioned, but I´m used to the time when every FTP site had a "00_index.txt" file contained a "ls -lR" of the whole file tree and also a README file on each folder explaining what was in there.
Likewise, including a tiny text file alongside the iso images would help answer the obvious question to someone whom has just downloaded the file(s) "Great, now how do I verify these images are OK?".
FC
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