CHECKSUM is not easily accessible on Fedora Download Page

[Matt Domsch]

On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 01:06:27PM -0500, M?ir?n Duffy wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:41 +1030, Tim wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 11:22 -0500, M??ir??n Duffy wrote:
> > > From talking to numerous novice users in the design of the site I'm
> > > not convinced that a checksum file is something that novice users are
> > > aware of or much concerned about.
> > 
> > Ignorance is no excuse, as they old saying goes, and it's something that
> > needs brought to their attention, with the full how and why.
> > 
> > > The main download link points directly to Fedora's main server, not a
> > > mirror, so they'd be downloading the checksum from the same source as
> > > the payload anyway.
> > 
> > And the non-main download links...?
> 
> Novice users most likely won't use those.
> 
> > It was always the recommendation, before, to not download from the main
> > site, to spread the load around the mirrors.
> 
> Yeh, it was our intention to have mirror manager generate a URL for
> those download buttons that made the most sense given geographical
> location, but that got dropped due to not having the time. It would be
> worth bringing up again. 

Ah, but it does. :-)  The URLs look like:
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Live/i686/Fedora-14-i686-Live-Desktop.iso
http://download.fedoraproject.org/pub/fedora/linux/releases/14/Fedora/x86_64/iso/Fedora-14-x86_64-DVD.iso

which has the goodness of MirrorManager behind it, issuing a HTTP 30x
redirect to the best mirror it can.

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Matt Domsch
Technology Strategist
Dell | Office of the CTO