[Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] LibreOffice 4.1.2 RC2 test builds available

Pedro pedlino at gmail.com
Thu Sep 19 06:50:57 PDT 2013


Hi Christian, all


Christian Lohmaier-2 wrote
>> However when I created a SHA1 (using GPG4Win) of a newly downloaded
>> installer (which works correctly) it doesn't match the corrupted file (as
>> expected, obviously)
> 
> Is strange. Maybe you downloaded one file, and verified the other? Or
> the file was truncated/damaged after you did verify it.

I created a SHA1 file of the second installer (which is working) and used
that SHA1 file to check the integrity of the corrupted installer. The
checksum failed, obviously.


Christian Lohmaier-2 wrote
> The gpg signature does both verify the integrity as well as the origin
> of the file.
> 
> My guess is that you misinterpreted whatever message gpg did print
> when verifying. (Like reporting the meaning - "Sorry, the file is a
> signature with the key AFEEAEA3, but I don't know the public key, so I
> cannot check whether the signature is correct")
> 
> Verifying a signature also includes verifying the file's
> contents/checksum. No different thatn SHA1.
> 
> So I hope you still have both copies of the file and can carefully
> compare the gpg outputs of both.

Yes, I have both copies and checking with GPG4Win reports the same for both
installers

<http://nabble.documentfoundation.org/file/n4074791/GPGcheck.png> 

Maybe GPG4Win is not the right tool?

Pedro



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