Changing name of ISO checksum file

Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski dominik at greysector.net
Thu Feb 5 13:39:36 UTC 2009


On Thursday, 05 February 2009 at 10:00, Till Maas wrote:
> On Wed February 4 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 22:58 +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> > > On Wed February 4 2009, Jesse Keating wrote:
> > > > As part of the Sha-256 feature[1], we need to change the SHA1SUM file
> > > > that has accompanied ISOs that Fedora produces for years.  This isn't
> > > >
> > > > My questions are, does anybody actually care how we change it, so long
> > > > as its documented properly?
> > >
> > > I would appreciate the new name to contain information about which files
> > > are hashed in there, e.g. F11-i386.sha256 or F11-i386-Live.sha256.
> 
> > It isn't enough that each directory of such isos has the hash file?
> 
> Not for me, because I want to store my .iso collection in one directory 
> together with their hash files, therefore they need to have different names.

Seconded. It's a pain when you want to download multiple ISO files into one
directory and the checksum files all have the same name.

Regards,
R.

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