Re: stable kernel checksumming fails

[Konstantin Ryabitsev]

On Sun, Mar 07, 2021 at 03:45:15PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > checksumming the downloaded kernel manually gives an "Okay" though.
> > 
> > 
> > is this just me (on Fedora 33) ?
> 
> Fails for me on Arch:
> 
> Verifying checksum on linux-5.11.4.tar.xz
> /usr/bin/sha256sum: /home/gregkh/Downloads/linux-tarball-verify.gZo313NCk.untrusted/sha256sums.txt: no properly formatted SHA256 checksum lines found
> FAILED to verify the downloaded tarball checksum
> 
> 
> Konstantin, anything change recently?

I think it's just cache invalidation problems. I've committed a tiny change to
the script that always grabs that file from the origin servers instead of
going via the CDN.

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mricon/korg-helpers.git/commit/?id=71e570c5f090b5740e323f98504bf38592785b49

This should sidestep the problem.

-K