[yt-dev] Call for testing: SHA512 in the install_script instead of md5 on the server

[Matthew Turk]

Hi Casey,

Rats!  Is there an sha sum utility of any type?  I thought some people
in IRC found it on their mac.

-Matt

On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:46 PM, Casey W. Stark <caseywstark at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Matt.
>
> I don't think macs have sha512sum. I get:
>
> Awesome!  Here we go.
>
> Using wget
> Downloading HDF5
> Downloading hdf5-1.8.7.tar.gz from yt-project.org
> 2012-01-25 13:22:51 URL:http://yt-project.org/dependencies/hdf5-1.8.7.tar.gz
> [7827944/7827944] -> "hdf5-1.8.7.tar.gz" [1]
> I am unable to locate sha512sum.  FILE INTEGRITY NOT VERIFIED.
> Downloading zlib-1.2.3.tar.bz2 from yt-project.org
> ...
>
> Best,
> Casey
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Currently to verify file integrity with the install script we download
>> sidecar md5 file from yt-project.org.  These aren't versioned, and md5
>> itself is largely deprecated for this.
>>
>> I've created a new sha512-using version of the install script, which
>> uses sha512 hashes stored *in the install script* to verify file
>> integrity.  This way any time these change we will be notified of
>> them.  I'd like it if a few people could test this -- I have -- on
>> pristine systems.  It changes both how the files are downloaded and it
>> now uses sha512sum, which should be available on most systems
>> (according to Kacper :).
>>
>> You can do this by:
>>
>> wget
>> https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt/raw/367ea3bfff2e/doc/install_script.sh
>>
>> and then running it, but maybe supplying an alternate directory rather
>> than the default.
>>
>> Thanks for any feedback.
>>
>> -Matt
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