Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 504228
Update for new hash and checksum filenames for F-11
Last modified: 2010-06-03 02:20:55 EDT
The document needs updated for F-11 to reflect the changes in verification. sha256sum is now used for checking the hash and the checksum filename has changed from SHA1SUM to something like Fedora-11-$ARCH-CHECKSUM. This was brought up on fedora-test-list today (https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-test-list/2009-June/msg00207.html) P.S. Sorry for not attaching a patch to fix this, I feel a little guilty filing a bug without one. ;)
No worries, it should be easy to fix however do you happen to know the location of the checksums for F11 preview so I can check everything that I write. Thanks
I found the checksum file.
I've made a note on the wiki common bugs page to cover this: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#504228
It also appears that at least some of the docs online still document the ISO verification process using the sha1sum utility. For example, the page linked to [1] under the "Verify your ISO download" page [2] for windows users still refers to sha1. Cygwin provides a sha256sum utility, though I'm not sure which packages provide it. My quick poking around seemed to turn up a GPL natively compiled sha256sum for windows here [3], though I haven't tried it. [1] http://docs.fedoraproject.org/readme-burning-isos/en_US/sn-validating-files.html [2] http://fedoraproject.org/en/verify [3] http://blog.nfllab.com/archives/152-Win32-native-md5sum,-sha1sum,-sha256sum-etc..html
There was a little discussion about sha256sum for Windows on fedora-list¹. I wondered² whether it would be worthwhile to use the MingW support in Fedora to build a native sha256sum.exe for Windows which we could host on fedoraproject.org for use by new users who are currently stuck on Windows. That seems safer and saner than having folks run random binaries from a blog (no offence to the writer of the nfllab.com blog). ¹ http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-June/msg00865.html ² http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2009-June/msg00875.html
I have been looking into the best way to check the sha256sum hashes on windows, thanks for the links.
md5deep can also compute sha256sum on Windows: http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/
I always use HashTab for checking. Too bad, it's just freeware. http://beeblebrox.org/HashTab%20Setup.exe The usage should be familiar to Windows user: Right click on the file>Properties>File Hashes then HashTab will calculate CRC32, MD5 and SHA-1 on the file. To calculate SHA-512 wait until the progress is finished (or just cancel it) and click Options to select additional hashing algorithms.
Manatsawin, There website has been down for the last few days but it looks to be up again, I am going to add this as well. I should have an updated version this week (for Windows only) and a new version for Windows, Linux, and OS X soon after.
*** Bug 525911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Is this now resolved? Can this bug be closed yet?
This is fixed in the current version. I am going to close it.