Re: info to verify checksum files not correct

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On Mon, 2022-11-21 at 09:39 +0100, Kamil Paral wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 12:18 AM AV via test <test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2022-11-19 at 19:33 -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > > On 11/18/22 16:11, AV via test wrote:
> > > > Following info on https://getfedora.org/en/security/
> > > > 
> > > > gpgv --keyring ./fedora.gpg *-CHECKSUM
> > > > gpgv: not a detached signature
> > > > 
> > > > I think a little correction is warranted.
> > > 
> > > You need to give more specific information about what exactly you
> > > tried.
> > > I followed the instructions there and it worked as expected.
> > 
> > I discovered today what happened. I had downloaded both
> > Fedora-Workstation and Fedora-Everything together with
> > their CHECKSUMS into the same folder.
> > If you then try "gpgv --keyring ./fedora.gpg *-CHECKSUM"
> > it results in this error message.
> > Remove one of the two from the folder and it works as
> > expected.
> > But as yet it is not clear to me why this error message
> > meant for another situation.
> > 
> 
> Can you file a bug or a pull request at
> https://pagure.io/fedora-web/websites/ ? I think the command should be
> modified to:
> $ gpgv --keyring ./fedora.gpg CHECKSUM_FILE
> and the description should state to replace CHECKSUM_FILE with an actual
> checksum file name. I agree that currently it's confusing because it looks
> like it can handle processing multiple checksum files together (which is
> the case for sha256sum, but not for gpgv).

Well, the point of the asterisk is to make it so you can just copy-and-
paste and run the command and it will find whatever (assumed single)
CHECKSUM file is present - it saves the user having to manually modify
the command.
-- 
Adam Williamson
Fedora QA
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https://www.happyassassin.net

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