On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:22 PM pmkel...@frontier.com <pmkel...@frontier.com> wrote: > > > > On 10/28/20 11:44, Ankur Sinha wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 11:21:07 -0400, pmkel...@frontier.com wrote: > >> Are you saying that the warning message about the 19 lines is a don't care > >> or is their a problem with the way the checksum file is made? Does this > >> mean > >> that the OK message that comes first is in error? > > > > I guess you could call it a "don't care". That isn't completely accurate > > though---sha256sum cares about all lines in the file, but if it they > > don't fit the format it can understand it skips them and tells the > > user. The format is explained in the man page: `man sha256sum`. It finds > > the one line it does understand, uses it to verify the ISO and prints > > "OK". > > > > This is all expected. So, there is nothing wrong with the CHECKSUM file, > > and there's nothing wrong with the output. > > > > Try the GPG related steps listed here. Those are what the PGP signature > > in the CHECKSUM file is for. > > https://getfedora.org/en/security/ > > > > I'm guessing that those extra lines are data needed by a process that > sha256sum calls (perhaps gpg), but sha256sum doesn't use them directly. > Otherwise I have no idea what their purpose is.
Step 2 at the above URL: Now, verify that the CHECKSUM file is valid: -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ test mailing list -- test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to test-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/test@lists.fedoraproject.org
