Re: F33 WS ISO checksum

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On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:22 PM pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx
<pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On 10/28/20 11:44, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 11:21:07 -0400, pmkellly@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> Are you saying that the warning message about the 19 lines is a don't care
> >> or is their a problem with the way the checksum file is made? Does this mean
> >> that the OK message that comes first is in error?
> >
> > I guess you could call it a "don't care". That isn't completely accurate
> > though---sha256sum cares about all lines in the file, but if it they
> > don't fit the format it can understand it skips them and tells the
> > user. The format is explained in the man page: `man sha256sum`. It finds
> > the one line it does understand, uses it to verify the ISO and prints
> > "OK".
> >
> > This is all expected. So, there is nothing wrong with the CHECKSUM file,
> > and there's nothing wrong with the output.
> >
> > Try the GPG related steps listed here. Those are what the PGP signature
> > in the CHECKSUM file is for.
> > https://getfedora.org/en/security/
> >
>
> I'm guessing that those extra lines are data needed by a process that
> sha256sum calls (perhaps gpg), but sha256sum doesn't use them directly.
> Otherwise I have no idea what their purpose is.

Step 2 at the above URL: Now, verify that the CHECKSUM file is valid:



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