• Toolz
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Topic: Md5 sums in files?

Would it be possible to provide the md5 sums in files and link to them? That way I can download both the iso and md5 to the same folder and close the referring page - that suits my workflow better! wink Distrowatch links to these files if they can find them which is useful too.

Minor preference: I think one md5 file per iso is best rather than one for the whole folder.

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Re: Md5 sums in files?

This should not be too much of a problem. smile
Added to the todo list.

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  • Registered: 2009-07-27
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Re: Md5 sums in files?

just a thought but shouldn't we be using at least sha1sum or sha256sum instead of md5sum, since it's more reliable?

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Re: Md5 sums in files?

Re: md5sum - http://wiki.debian.org/MD5inDebian

As for iso verification, I kind of like the way casper-md5check handles the matter (although that code has a lot of plymouth stuff in it currently).

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  • Toolz
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Re: Md5 sums in files?

Interesting. Here's how Debian are doing it for iso downloads:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/relea … 86/iso-cd/

@rikhardfloss: I think the applicable phrase might be 'in addition to'; not 'instead of'? Md5 is well understood. I have a couple of (Windows) utilities that can do sha1 but the above link says even that is no good.

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Re: Md5 sums in files?

Distrowatch have just linked to sha256 for the Ubuntu RC even though md5sum is still available. I wonder if this is a new policy or just a one-off.

  • Registered: 2009-07-27
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Re: Md5 sums in files?

Toolz wrote:

Interesting. Here's how Debian are doing it for iso downloads:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/relea … 86/iso-cd/

@rikhardfloss: I think the applicable phrase might be 'in addition to'; not 'instead of'? Md5 is well understood. I have a couple of (Windows) utilities that can do sha1 but the above link says even that is no good.

it's just as simple as md5 and it also runs in m$-window$

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToSHA256SUM