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

j s oishi jsoishi at gmail.com
Wed Jan 25 12:13:34 PST 2012


Hi Matt,

Works perfectly on Ubuntu 11.10.

j


On Wed, Jan 25, 2012 at 11:19 AM, 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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