Re: Very hard to find MD5 checksum of Debian CDs!
TLDR: links to pertinent bug reports:
#381555 - http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ : add link to iso md5 cheksum
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381555
#640054 - Download pages should have prominent links to image verification instructions
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640054
#612116 - www.debian.org: /CD/ should now redirect to the new /distrib/
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612116
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, davidson@freevolt.org wrote:
On Sun, 18 Sep 2016, Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Sunday 18 September 2016 02:05:42 Shervin Emami wrote:
At "www.debian.org" I clicked on "Getting Debian", and then to get a net
install image there are 3 different pages that all have direct links to
the
ISO files, but no link at all about how to get the MD5sums. Even the
Verify
page doesn't show how to find the MD5sums. So I think it will help many
users if there can be a link to the MD5sum file at these 4 pages:
https://www.debian.org/distrib/
https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst
https://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
https://www.debian.org/CD/verify
I was looking for amd64 netinstall but it seems the problem exists for all
architectures and both for netinstall or CD. So adding a few links could
help quite a few beginners!
Not just beginners. I too find it a nightmare, and sometimes give up. If
you
look at the raw HTML you can extract the URL of the download directory and
they are indeed there - it is finding the directory which is hard, because
the link just says "click here" or something, and if you click it
immediately
begins downloading. You never see the directory.
One of the developers has raised this as a bug.
Four things:
1. Can anyone provide a link to this bug report?
Having done some browsing at
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=www.debian.org
the following three bug reports all pertain to this thread, one way or
another:
#381555 - http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ : add link to iso md5 cheksum
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381555
#640054 - Download pages should have prominent links to image verification instructions
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=640054
#612116 - www.debian.org: /CD/ should now redirect to the new /distrib/
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612116
My guess is that the first of these is what Lisi referred to.
Interestingly, if I am reading the thread under #381555 correctly*,
three years ago someone submitted a patch for the page located here
www.debian.org/CD/netinst
that addressed the issue of where to find checksums associated with
the linked iso files,
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381555#17
but the patch, as submitted, required some edits,
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=381555#24
and AFAICT the page that was to be patched (namely, CD/netinst)
remains unpatched. (So, I guess, the patch slipped through a
do-acratic crack and never got edited?)
Currently that same CD/netinst page does link to the CD FAQ (so
called). And that FAQ page, in turn, contains an answer
www.debian.org/CD/faq/#verify
which someone encountering the OP's difficulty would likely consult.
Unfortunately that particular answer also fails to provide hints about
where to obtain the appropriate checksum files.
* Bug threads being a genre that taxes my reading comprehension, for
some reason.
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