On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 04:35:21PM -0500, Ricky Zhou wrote:
On 2009-12-31 10:24:53 PM, Richard Zidlicky wrote:
sorry to use this contact address, was not sure where else to direct this.
No problem at all, this is the right place to report website issues like this.
The procedure in this page has one significant stumbling point - the *-CHECKSUM file is a gzipped file - at least when it is downloaded using wget. ( I have tested it with https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM )
That definitely shouldn't be a gzipped file - does the file command say that it is one? This is what the file should look like:
thats what happens here:
[rz@rz rai]$ wget -c --proxy=off https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM --2009-12-31 22:58:03-- https://fedoraproject.org/static/checksums/Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM Resolving fedoraproject.org... 80.239.156.214, 152.46.7.221, 66.35.62.162, ... Connecting to fedoraproject.org|80.239.156.214|:443... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 1078 (1.1K) [text/plain] Saving to: “Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM”
100%[======================================>] 1,078 --.-K/s in 0.1s
2009-12-31 22:58:10 (8.79 KB/s) - “Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM” saved [1078/1078]
[rz@rz rai]$ file Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM: gzip compressed data, from Unix
[rz@rz rai]$ od -c Fedora-12-i386-CHECKSUM |head 0000000 037 213 \b \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 \0 003 m 223 K 227 252 8 0000020 024 F 347 374 \n 207 335 355 252 k H B 036 w 255 ; 0000040 \0 304 G 251 224 210 X 352 , 344 a ! * \b 242 % 0000060 277 276 271 325 = 253 233 i 262 366 9 337 316 9 / / 0000100 335 361 202 361 4 354 - 307 313 ^ < 035 207 301 260 267 0000120 \b 342 330 035 \a 277 357 ^ 254 211 250 ? ~ 366 342 211 0000140 k [ 226 001 B q 310 245 202 016 347 016 325 6 001 Z 0000160 ` \f u 312 \0 g $ u \f 260 225 020 306 250 T J 0000200 252 035 a 3 \f 004 ! D b 214 251 244 275 177 F Z 0000220 025 225 x 261 341 K 206 030 y 031 n 206 ? 262 272 260
Richard