James Knott wrote:
On 11/21/2016 09:51 AM, Per Jessen wrote:
It's not what I expected. I ran into the same thing, but was able to
find the correct shasum on the mirror page. Hi James,
I have not done it for the longest time, but we used to be able to just use the checksumming utility to also check the sums - i.e. md5sum or sha1sum. There also used to be complete listings named 'MD5SUMS' resp. 'SHA1SUMS' of all checksums of all files , but they disappeared at some point.
The PGP signature is new as of Leap421, up until 13.2, the checksum was not signed. I don't know the reason for this change.
Regardless of the reason, people shouldn't be left with a WTF??? experience, as is happening with this. If this is the new method, it should be clearly documented.
Agree. The openSUSE:SDB needs to be updated.
Incidentally, in the late 90s, I worked at IBM Canada, as a product specialist. I provided 3rd level support for OS/2 and some Windows apps. In that role, I created a lot of documentation for users or other support staff. A situation such as this would not have been tolerated.
Sure, but perhaps not a fair comparison. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.6°C) http://www.hostsuisse.com/ - dedicated server rental in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org