On Sunday 11 September 2005 23:16, Paul Howarth wrote: > On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 14:06 -0700, Thomas Taylor wrote: > > 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. > > Can't find any after a quick check. Mediacheck has been broken for ages > but that's an issue with the IDE CD-ROM driver, not with the md5sum > program. > > > > > 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. > > Failed doing what? > > You do know that md5sum and sha1sum are different algorithms that > produce different results for the same input data, i.e. if SHA1 > checksums are provided, you *must* use sha1sum, not md5sum to verify > them, and if MD5 checksums are provided, you *must* use md6sum, not > sha1sum to verify them, right? Yep, that's why I put "Use sha1sum instead. That's why it shows sha1sum, not md5sum" in the above reply. > > > P.S. - What is city-fan? > > Fan of Manchester City Football Club here in the UK. > Okay, I'd gone to the web site but couldn't figure anything from it. Is English/British (which is preferred?) football seasonal like here in the states? > Paul. > -- > Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA Iraq war: 1,896 and counting
