Re: F33 WS ISO checksum

On 10/28/20 11:44, Ankur Sinha wrote:
>  On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 11:21:07 -0400, pmkellly(a)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.

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	Pat	(tablepc)