Howdy. Mihai Popescu <mihaipbs () gmail ! com> wrote: > So the process I thought about it's not true. Better to remove the > SHA256 then, what purpose can it serve if it is not syncronised?
Some guy said ... Do you not want it to be there for official releases? How about if I remove the code now. Then 10 minutes before we make a release, we put it back in, find out that it makes the media not fit or some other issue has showed up.... http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128719219216740&w=2 > I still don't figure out why this checksum missmatch is ( on the same > server, not among servers). Some other guy said ... > This file is provided for you to be able to check that you downloaded > the files correctly. The installation media uses an internal source for > the checksum information. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=129701893809304&w=2 Yet another guy said ... > and the mirroring process isn't atomic. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=129702183711918&w=2 Some 'yahoo' said ... > You can compare a SHA256 from various servers that you trust whilst > getting the .iso from any mirror, bearing in mind that they aren't all > in sync as the snapshots are released so often and even one server might > have it's SHA256 out of sync with it's own .iso when you happen to > come along. http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=129707462918858&w=2 So on and so forth. Best wishes.
