.iso checksum annoyance

hey,

i just recognized some major inconsistencies and maybe errors regarding the checksums for the downloadable .iso image files:

isn’t there any guideline at opensuse for creating these checksum files? the current situation makes it really hard to automate the .iso image download and subsequent checksum verification.

greetings…

opensuse-factory mailing list would be better place to discuss it.

I’m more inclined to see those as annoyances rather than errors. I agree that they are inconsistencies.

In my experience, the DVD and NET installer images get this right. The live images don’t.

At one time, even the Tumbleweed DVD images got this wrong. But they eventually fixed it.

The problem, I think, is that standard scripts generate a file using the image path on OBS, which is not the same as the image path on the download site. So they eventually fixed this for the DVD and NET images. But the live images appear to be handled by a different team.

Until your post, I did not know that there were live images for 15.2. The last time that I checked, that download directory was empty.

the current situation makes it really hard to automate the .iso image download and subsequent checksum verification.

I mostly download DVD installers, which work fine.

When I download a live image, I then download the checksum file and verify its gpg signature. I then copy that file to “x” (a new file), delete the GPG signature lines and set the correct iso file name. And then I run “sha256sum -c x”. After checking, I remove file ‘x’.