On Sunday 11 September 2005 03:56, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 14:39 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote: > > On Saturday 10 September 2005 11:10, Dennis Myers wrote: > > > I decided to have a look at FC4 and have run into a problem with the > > > servers. I have tried six times on six different mirrors for the CD set > > > and twice for the DVD and on everyone the MD5sums are way incorrect. > > > So to see if it was my problem I d/l'd Mandriva 2006rc1 and it came > > > down with no problem? Are the SHA1sums on Fedora mirrors wrong or any > > > suggestions? TIA -- > > > Dennis M. linux user #180842 > > > > Hi Dennis: > > > > md5sum is known to be broken in FC4. > > What? Since when? Bugzilla reference? Hi Paul: Several instances in the archives for both Fedora and Fedora-Testing. These included advice to skip the install CD/DVD check which were causing much trouble. Goes clear back to FC2. > > > Use sha1sum instead. That's why it shows sha1sum, not md5sum. > > My understanding was that sha1sum was simply a better, more secure > algorithm and that was why FC4 uses that in preference to md5sum (i.e. > the checksums provided are sha1sums, not md5sums). > Maybe they finally got it "working right" in FC4. When I tried it on FC4t2 it failed but sha1sum worked fine. > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> P.S. - What is city-fan? Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,898 and counting
