Please send the MD5SUM file first. That way a user with a slow connection can do a useful sanity check by hand when the first .iso completes, which may be a long time (hours) before all the .iso finish. If the files get sent in alphabetical order, then rename it 00_MD5SUM or the like.
All of this depends on the bittorrent clients+servers transfering a whole directory file-by-file, instead of as random pieces from all the files. File-by-file is a good policy because it has better out-of-band error recovery: it is much more likely that some whole files have been transfered, and thus may be useful even if the whole directory has not been sent yet.
[Yes, there is checkisomd5 in the ananconda-tools package; but md5sum is always installed, while ananconda-tools is rare.]
-- John Reiser, jreiser@xxxxxxxxxxxx
