On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 12:22 PM pmkellly(a)frontier.com
<pmkellly(a)frontier.com> wrote:
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.
Step 2 at the above URL: Now, verify that the CHECKSUM file is valid:
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Chris Murphy