Fedora 12 bad checksums

Todd Zullinger tmz at pobox.com
Tue Nov 17 20:25:01 UTC 2009


Greg Woods wrote:
> I have tried twice to download the Fedora 12 DVD ISO's for i386 and
> x86_64 through the torrents. In both cases, the SHA1 checksums do
> not match what is in the CHECKSUM file. Both of my downloads match
> each other. Is this a problem with the ISO's, with the CHECKSUM
> file, or a bizarre problem with my download that causes the
> checksums to be identically wrong for two different downloads?
>
> What I get is:
>
> 0dc8ed436f0b44874454a379e8de5ad057c0115d  Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso
>
> What is in the CHECKSUM file is:
>
>
> f0ad929cd259957e160ea442eb80986b5f01daaffdbcc7e5a1840a666c4447c7
> *Fedora-12-i386-DVD.iso

The checksum used i SHA256, not SHA1.  You should use sha256sum to
chceck them.  See https://fedoraproject.org/verify for details.

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