But why are you looking at md5sum? It is beyond obsolete. We should be
considering what 'shasum -a 512' does IMO.

Gary

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024, 4:57 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 13:40 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > Yes but https://ss64.com/mac/shasum.html
> >
> > Says the format is SUM SPACE CHAR FILE
> >
> > where CHAR is one of '*', '?', or ' ' depending on the file type.
> >
>
> This is not how I read it and it is hot how it is explained here [1].
> The script always uses binary mode and makes no attempts to normalize
> line endings. I adjusted the code to insert `*` instead of ` ` to
> reflect that.
>
>
> https://github.com/ok2c/httpcomponents-release-tools/commit/2fe65768a235b226d9940b2422863d4360140334
>
> Oleg
>
>
> [1]
>
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/127959/md5sum-command-binary-and-text-mode/127961#127961
>
>
>
>
> > Gary
> >
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2024, 11:40 AM Oleg Kalnichevski <ol...@apache.org>
> > wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2024-06-24 at 07:38 -0400, Gary Gregory wrote:
> > > > Hi Oleg,
> > > >
> > > > A bit of googling pointed me to
> > > >
> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/23014/is-there-file-format-for-checksums
> > > >
> > > > If I edit the sha512 file to contain TWO spaces between the
> > > > checksum
> > > > and the file name, then it works:
> > > >
> > > > shasum --check httpcomponents-client-5.4-beta1-src.zip.sha512
> > > > httpcomponents-client-5.4-beta1-src.zip: OK
> > > >
> > >
> > > Bizarre. Anyhow, would that fix the problem in the future?
> > >
> > >
> https://github.com/ok2c/httpcomponents-release-tools/commit/5209fb384f8e00e0b1eb52f970b3220cb51af74a
> > >
> > > Oleg
> > >
>
>

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