Marvin Humphrey wrote on Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 12:24:36 -0700: > 2012/3/19 Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@googlemail.com>: > > >> FWIW, there seemed to be extraneous .txt extensions attached to aoo.KEYS > >> and some of the checksum files, > > > > I am not sure if I understand you here, can you explain it? > > Apologies, I have tracked down the root of the problem and it was an error on > my part when downloading some files via Safari. I have now doublechecked and > all of the files within this directory have the correct names: > > http://people.apache.org/~jsc/developer-snapshots/src_releases/ > > >> and the format of the checksum files will not work with "md5sum --check" > >> and "shasum --check" -- but that's all nitpicking. > > > > I used gpg on my Mac to generate md5 and sha checksums as found in the docu > > (). I have to check it but is there an incompatibility already known? > > > > Using "md5" on my Mac gave me the same checksum > > ... and so long as the sums are the same, that addresses all important > concerns. :) >
+1 > FWIW, some people like to use the "md5sum" and "shasum" command line apps > (which seem to be distributed with certain Linux distros) when validating > checksums. Output from GPG isn't compatible with those apps, so those users > must fall back to eyeball comparision. It's a nice convenience to those users > to put sums in a format that their automatic validation can chew -- but > speaking from experience it's also a bit of a PITA to do it on a Mac[1]. % sha1sum /dev/null da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 /dev/null % sha1 -r /dev/null da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 /dev/null % openssl sha1 /dev/null SHA1(/dev/null)= da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 % sha1 /dev/null SHA1 (/dev/null) = da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 % gpg --print-md sha1 /dev/null /dev/null: DA39 A3EE 5E6B 4B0D 3255 BFEF 9560 1890 AFD8 0709 FWIW, at Subversion the .sha1 files contain just the bare sha1. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
