Re: Proposal: drop "Test installation media" from live media

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On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 03:32:57PM -0800, Brian C. Lane wrote:
> The problem I see with dropping it is that without it you do not know if
> there are errors in the packages you are installing. With non-live
> installs you can depend on rpm to detect that, but not with live since
> we're just copying the files over.

With the live media, though, it's a squashfs that gets uncompressed, right?

I just did a very rudimentary test of copying the Fedora Workstation 33
squashfs.img and injecting a single random bit flip 1000 times, then running
unsquashfs. Of these 1000 tests, the result was a failure to unpack (with an
error code) every single time.

I'm sure this isn't a cryptographically-secure verification, but it seems
like a decent enough practical one. Am I missing something? It seems like
the case of the live cd booting successfully but then installing a corrupted
system is astronomically unlikely.


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