Bug 504228 - Update for new hash and checksum filenames for F-11
Summary: Update for new hash and checksum filenames for F-11
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora Documentation
Classification: Retired
Component: readme-burning-isos
Version: devel
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Zach Oglesby
QA Contact: eric
URL:
Whiteboard: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common...
: 525911 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-06-04 21:00 UTC by Todd Zullinger
Modified: 2010-06-03 06:20 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version:
Clone Of:
: 530215 (view as bug list)
Environment:
Last Closed: 2010-06-03 06:20:55 UTC
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Description Todd Zullinger 2009-06-04 21:00:22 UTC
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. ;)

Comment 1 Zach Oglesby 2009-06-05 02:48:46 UTC
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

Comment 2 Zach Oglesby 2009-06-05 02:53:33 UTC
I found the checksum file.

Comment 3 Paul W. Frields 2009-06-05 20:41:10 UTC
I've made a note on the wiki common bugs page to cover this:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F11_bugs#504228

Comment 4 Dan Hood 2009-06-10 14:15:42 UTC
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

Comment 5 Todd Zullinger 2009-06-10 14:26:52 UTC
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

Comment 6 Zach Oglesby 2009-06-10 16:23:55 UTC
I have been looking into the best way to check the sha256sum hashes on windows, thanks for the links.

Comment 7 Steve Chapel 2009-08-05 15:12:58 UTC
md5deep can also compute sha256sum on Windows:
http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/

Comment 8 Manatsawin Hanmongkolchai 2009-08-11 10:50:11 UTC
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.

Comment 9 Zach Oglesby 2009-08-11 13:29:06 UTC
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.

Comment 10 Ruediger Landmann 2009-09-27 03:58:08 UTC
*** Bug 525911 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 11 Mike C 2009-09-29 19:16:56 UTC
Is this now resolved? Can this bug be closed yet?

Comment 12 Zach Oglesby 2010-06-03 06:20:55 UTC
This is fixed in the current version. I am going to close it.


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